Creating a good college list for Engineering

momhippo
Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:40:05 +0000

RIT has co-ops, but they are required and may be too time consuming if you think you’re going to want a graduate degree. RIT is on the quarter system. If I remember correctly, it requires 5 co-ops for engineering. S considers this a negative.

The schedules for each major show how many co-ops are required and when they are usually done. It takes 5 years to get a 4 year degree at RIT because of the co-ops. However, you can get a masters in 5 years and take a couple less co-ops. But you need to apply for this and have a very good gpa (3.4 I think).

Recently an IE student there interviewed for co-ops before he needed to just to see if he could get one and got offered 3. One was at an international corp on the design team of a project. They don’t just have local co-ops where you file papers.

A lot of big name corps interview at RIT.