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Coming to RIT/NTID is about getting access to opportunities and people who will support you and challenge you to be your best. It's about getting experiences that will shape you and take you where you want to go.

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Statistics

1st

College of Its Kind

NTID is the first and largest technological college in the world for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

1.1k

Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

RIT/NTID serves more than 1,100 deaf and hard-of-hearing students from around the United States and the world who live, study, and work alongside hearing students on the mainstream RIT campus.

93%

Employed

RIT/NTID graduates are successful in a broad range of career fields.

93%

Receive Financial Assistance

The percentage of full-time deaf and hard-of-hearing undergraduate students who receive financial assistance.

Faces of RIT

Meet the President and Dean

Caroline Solomon

We are not here simply to prepare students for the workforce—we are here to prepare them for a world that needs their voices, their leadership, their moral compasses, their ability to be agile and adapt and innovate.

Caroline Solomon
NTID President/Vice President RIT

Latest News

  • June 10, 2026

    an illlustration of how artist Christine Sun Kim sees Wrath. Wrath is illustrated as grotesque humanoid monster with glowing green eyes, exposed teeth, clawed limbs, and a large eye embedded in its distorted torso.

    Cultured features an essay by artist Christine Sun Kim '02 (applied science and technology) reflecting on disability rights, deaf culture, and “wrath”, citing the work of Corinna Hill, assistant professor of liberal studies, and discussing historical efforts to assimilate and erase deaf identity.

  • June 10, 2026

    a woman in a light blue blazer and blonde hair sits for a headshot

    Rochester Business Journal reports that Flavia S. Fleischer has been appointed dean of RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, becoming the first Deaf woman to lead the college in its history.

  • June 8, 2026

    a white woman with blonde hair and a blue suit jacket smiles at the camera. An orange box with her name is on the left.

    Flavia S. Fleischer named NTID dean

    Following a national search, NTID President Caroline Solomon and RIT Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Prabu David have announced the appointment of Flavia S. Fleischer as the college’s new dean. She assumes the role on Aug. 1.

  • May 20, 2026

    image of Amberlee Jones and Sam Sepah

    Two appointed to RIT/NTID Foundation Board of Directors

    Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf has appointed Amberlee Jones, of Rochester, New York, and Sam Sepah of Pleasanton, California, to their Foundation Board of Directors.