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Freshmen, transfer and returning students walk the quarter mile on the first day of classes. This year, RIT has a record enrollment of about 19,000 students on its campuses in Rochester, including about 600 undergraduate students at RIT campuses in China, Croatia, Dubai and Kosovo.

RIT: First university to publish video game on the Xbox platform

RIT became the first university to publish a video game on the Xbox One gaming platform when Hack, Slash & Backstab was officially launched on Aug. 31. Hack, Slash & Backstab was produced in residence at RIT in a studio course offered through the internationally ranked School of Interactive Games and Media, and the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC). The original concept was created in 2015 by Andrew Phelps, founder and director of RIT's MAGIC Center, and is published and maintained through MAGIC Spell Studios, the commercial, for-profit arm of the MAGIC Center. Read More >>

An innovation ecosystem

Mariana Pinheiro, an industrial design graduate student from Brazil, loves bringing her projects to life. Her most recent undertaking, The Band Toy, is a series of interactive instruments designed to stimulate the senses of children with low-motor coordination skills through the use of textures, sounds, vibrations and light patterns. She hopes that youngsters with developmental and physical disabilities will soon benefit from using the educational toy she helped design. Pinheiro is among the growing number of students who are thriving in RIT's uniquely designed, multidisciplinary innovation ecosystem— a system that has mushroomed over the past five years, with business competitions, events, programs and full-time experiences available to launch student ideas into the stratosphere. Read More >>

Princeton Review names RIT among best colleges

RIT is considered one of the nation's best universities for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education-services company features RIT in the just-published 2017 edition of its annual book The Best 381 Colleges. According to a summary of student comments, RIT is an "academic stalwart (that) boasts one of the country's oldest and largest co-op programs and regularly turns out job-ready students from its arts, business and engineering programs alike." Students call the workload "daunting," but says professors are "more than happy to help" and "truly take pride in helping their students become successful." One student said, "When I'm in a classroom, I feel like I'm learning and that I have a voice." Read More >>