About NTID
Offering associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees, NTID is an international model for educating and preparing deaf and hard-of-hearing students for technology-related careers.
Expert Sources
NTID faculty and staff are experts in fields related to deafness, such as:
- Education
- Cochlear Implants
- Deaf Workers
- Interpreters
- Technology
- Sign Language
- C-Print
- Research
- TTYs, Pagers
- Communication
Sign Language Experts
NTID/RIT is the first college in the world to formally educate sign language interpreters, and has graduated more interpreters than any other college. RIT/NTID offers associate and bachelor's degrees in ASL-English Interpretation, and creates innovative products like ASL dictionaries to help students of all ages.
Employment Rate
92% of deaf and hard-of-hearing graduates who seek employment after graduation enter the workplace.
International Presence
Colleges around the world look to NTID as a model for technical education programs for deaf students. NTID serves as a resource for educators in Japan, China, Russia, Phillippines, and Czech Republic.
Performing Arts
NTID is the only college in the world that supports a program of theater and dance for deaf students.
A Different Way of Teaching
NTID provides unprecedented services to help deaf and hard-of-hearing students learn highly technical and advanced subjects through unique visual techniques, technology and support such as:
100 Full-Time Interpreters support students in and out of the classroom.
More than 90,000 hours are spent each year interpreting on campus.
Tutors and Notetakers spend 57,000 hours supporting deaf students in RIT's classrooms.
C-Print® is an NTID-developed speech-to-text transcription system,
allowing deaf students to have immediate notes of a teacher's lecture.
Fully Networked Residence Halls are equipped with strobe lights and telephone amplifiers.
A Sampling of Degree Programs
- Applied Computer Technology
- Art and Computer Design
- Applied Optical Technology
- Automation Technologies - Robotics
- ASL-English Interpretation Program
- Business
- Computer Aided Drafting
- Computer Integrated Machining Technology
- Digital Imaging and Publishing Technology
- Laboratory Science Technology
- Master of Science Program in Secondary Education of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Location
Suburban Rochester
Western New York
Who are NTID Students?
59% male
41% female
24% minority students
1,200 deaf or hard-of-hearing people from 49 states and 36 countries
History/Mission
RIT, founded in 1829, competed against eight other colleges for NTID to become part of the university. NTID began operations in 1968 to provide deaf and hard-of-hearing students with outstanding technical and professional education programs, complemented by a strong liberal arts and sciences curriculum, that prepares them to live and work in the mainstream of a rapidly changing global community and enhances their lifelong learning.