The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private university, located in metropolitan Rochester, New York, within the town of Henrietta, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation.
The Institute as it is known today came to be as a result of a 1891 merger between the Rochester Athenaeum, a literary society founded in 1829 by Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and associates, and the Mechanics Institute, ...
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The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private university, located in metropolitan Rochester, New York, within the town of Henrietta, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation.
The Institute as it is known today came to be as a result of a 1891 merger between the Rochester Athenaeum, a literary society founded in 1829 by Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and associates, and the Mechanics Institute, a Rochester institute of practical technical training for local residents founded in 1885 by a consortium of local businessmen including Captain Henry Lomb. In 1944, the university changed its name to Rochester Institute of Technology.
The Institute originally resided within the city of Rochester, New York proper, on a block bounded by the Erie Canal, South Plymouth, Spring, and South Washington Streets. Its art department was originally located in the Bevier Memorial Building. However, by the middle of the twentieth century, RIT began to...
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