About NTID
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is the world's first and largest technological college for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. It is one of eight colleges of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), a privately endowed, coeducational university that is student centered and career focused. RIT was founded in 1829, and NTID was formally established by Congress in 1965. It became one of RIT's colleges in 1968. One of the unique features of RIT/NTID is that more than 1,100 deaf and hard-of-hearing students study, share residence halls and enjoy social life together with more than 14,000 hearing students.
Mission
To provide deaf and hard-of-hearing students with outstanding state-of-the-art technical and professional 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.
Location
The RIT campus comprises 200 buildings on 1,300 acres in suburban Rochester, located in Western New York, just a few hours from Niagara Falls and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Enrollment
Undergraduate: 1,075 deaf and hard-of-hearing students and 92 hearing students (enrolled in educational interpreting program)
Graduate: 70 deaf and hard-of-hearing students and 33 hearing students (enrolled in Master of Science program in Secondary Education of Students who are Deaf)
Degree Programs
Qualified deaf and hard-of-hearing students can earn associate degrees in more than 30 accredited NTID programs. They also can earn bachelors or master's degrees in more than 200 programs offered by RIT's seven other colleges: Applied Science and Technology, Business, Computing and Information Sciences, Engineering, Imaging Arts and Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Science.
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