The Rochester Institute of Technology

I feel as if I missed out on a big part of my life. I expected college to be fun, while at the same time be able to sit back and learn.

Instead I graduated from a school in which it seemed like a struggle to deal with administration who dont want to listen to students. What little sense of community RIT had during my freshman year, was torn apart by the alcohol policy, and other senseless policies as keeping the freshmen completely seperated from upperclassmen.

RIT, I finished all of your classes, paid all of your parking fines, dealt with your administration, helped other students pass their classes, gave you over $100,000, and you have the nerve to charge me for commencement invitations for my family? In other words my high school friends who are thinking of going to RIT, take a second look, and don't be scammed by the salespeople who tell you RIT is a great place to be.

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000

Just a couple of points, I keep reading about the quality
of education at RIT. The quantity of the work is inarguably
heavy, but the *quality* is abysmal. It's a lot of work
that takes very little talent to do. There is no emphasis
on originality or innovation. The coursework is stripped
of much of the conceptual framework, and is simply procedural.
Make no mistake about RIT : the emphasis is on technical
training, not education. A spokesman from motorola came
to give a talk when i was an engineering major. He said
he was glad RIT was graduating students who "provide technical manpower" rather than doing "just basic research."

Translation : RIT graduates aren't capable of innovation.
And don't think technical training will make you successful.
If you're not creative, aggressive, and an effective communicator, you are going to be stuck at the bottom of

the corporate heap your entire life.
Comments from RIT's own faculty to me, when i was a student :

"The difficulty of work here ... this is really just all phys. ed."
"The faculty don't think much of the students here ..."
Also, RIT's reputation falls to almost nil 200 miles outside
of rochester. I live in boston, and it's virtually unheard
of. A classmate of mine had a 4.0 in mathematics, along with stellar test scores and other accolades. He was turned

down by RPI for graduate school. RIT's reputation did not
match this boy's talent, and he paid the price.
I would encourage any student considering RIT to look at
RPI and WPI instead. If you don't get accepted, you may be better off going to some local college to do some "core" work for a year or two, accumulating credits and laying down good grades (and saving money.)

But steer clear of RIT. It's the DeVry of 4 year universities.

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000