RIT and U of Rochester

Cazwax
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 06:11:20 +0000

@bm1999 : ‘Engineering’ is pretty broad.

I’m originally from the region and attended RIT for CS in the late 70s. Others from my HS attended UofR; for History and Mechanical Engineering IIRC.

Currently RIT’s strengths are in CS/CE, Materials Science, Photo Science, & some variants of Civil Engineering.
UofR’s Engineering strengths are in Optics, High Energy Physics, and perhaps some BioMed E. There is a lot of NYS $ flowing back into this region for Optics and Photonics…

Physical plant wise UofR is more a mini-Ivy, RIT a Brutalist Disneyland. I think the only saving graces of RIT’s physical plant was the moderating presence of the School of American Craftsmen which was quite strong when I attended… and now is represented by the sparse but strong influences of individual art pieces across the campus.

RIT’s roots are in the Rochester Athenaeum. These were great institutions ( in the case of Greece may be their only hope ) and in the case of RIT provides the template for the institutional goals. Are these yours?