110 Eighth Street
Troy, NY 12180-3590
General Information
Type: Private institution
Year Founded: 1824
Religious Affilation: None
Academic Calendar: Semester
Size of Undergraduate Student Body: 4,951
Geographical Setting: Urban
Endowment: $624,279,000
Admissions
Application Fee: $70
Application Deadline: January 1
Selectivity: More selective
Expenses
Tuition and Fees: $33,500
Room/Board: $9,939
Student Services
Basic Services Offered: nonremedial tutoring, women’s center, placement service, day care, health service, health insurance
Remedial Services Offered: math, writing, study skills
Counseling Services Offered: minority student, career, military, personal, veteran student, academic, older student, psychological, birth control, religious
Careers
Career Services Offered: co-op education, on-campus job interviews, internships, resume assistance, career/job search classes, alumni network, interest inventory, interview training
Students That Enter the Job Market…
Within 6 Months of Graduation: 64%
Within 1 Year of Graduation: N/A
Within 2 Years of Graduation: N/A
Firms that Hire Most Graduates: GE; IBM; United Technologies; Accenture; Lockheed Martin; CGI-AMS; BAE Systems; Bank of America; General Dynamics; Goldman Sachs & Company; Northrop Grumman; Westinghouse.
Library
Does the school have a library on campus? – Yes
Is it a member of a library consortia? – Yes
Number of books, serial backfiles, and other material including government documents: 494,428
Number of current serial subscriptions: 43,733
Number of microforms: 582,575
Number of audiovisuals: 168,307
Number of ebooks: 33,000
Other library facilities: The Cole Library, supporting the Rensselaer at Hartford program. Rensselaer is a member of the Connect NY Consortium. Members of this project provide rapid access to their shared book collections. Current members include Bard College, Colgate University, Pace University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, Siena College, St. Lawrence University, Union College, United States Military Academy and Vassar College.
The Architecture Library’s collection was begun in 1929 and the branch facility established in 1930. It now occupies approximately 4700 square feet on the east side of the Greene Building’s third floor. The physical collection has grown to 30,000 print titles housed in the facility and over 100,000 slides. The graphic collections now include an increasing number of digitized images, and multi-media material on architecture, design and the visual arts, as well as traditional maps, drawings, prints, photographs and microform collections.
Museums or other Special Academic Buildings on Campus: In September 2004 Rensselaer opened the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies. The 218,000-square-foot facility houses more than 400 faculty, staff, and student researchers in biotechnology, information technology, and related disciplines.The Center contains an 800 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer and the computing and visualization infrastructure needed to model molecular structure at the atomic level.
In 2007 Rensselaer will open the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. EMPAC is a place and a program, where the arts challenge and alter our technology and technology challenges and alters the arts.
Rensselaer also has the following: Archer Center for Student Leadership Development; Bioinformatics Center at Rensselaer and Wadsworth; Centrifuge Research Center; Class 100 clean room; Combinatorial Sciences and Materials Informatics Collaboratory (CoSMIC); Darrin Fresh Water Institute (at Lake George); Electronics Agile Manufacturing Research Institute (EAMRI); Flexible Manufacturing Center (FMC); George M. Low Gallery and papers; Gaerttner Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Laboratory; Hirsch Observatory; Laboratory Introduction to Embedded Controls (LITEC); Lighting Research Center (LRC); National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Sub-surface Sensing & Imaging (CenSSIS); NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures; New York State Center for Polymer Synthesis; New State Center for Studies of the Origin of Life (A NASA Specialized Center); O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory; Rensselaer Incubator; Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (one of only six in the nation); RPIdea Lab; Rensselaer Statistical Consulting Center (RSCC); Rensselaer Technology Park; Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC); Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship; Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory (SBRL); Plasma Lab; Microfabrication Clean Room(MCR);
Technology
Is a computer course required? – Yes
Is a computer required? – Yes
Number of available computers for all students: 5,162
Available internet access? – Yes
Available email accounts? – Yes
Computers available in: computer center/labs, residence halls, library, student center
Number of available wired connections available in…
The Library (not including computer labs): 326
Classrooms: 1,272
Labs: 20
Other areas: 3,282
Is there a wireless network? – Yes
Where is wireless available? – in all the libraries, in some classrooms, in computer labs, in administrative/faculty offices and work areas, in some of the college-owned, operated, or affiliated housing
Wireless simultaneous connection capacity: 4,625
Recommended operating system: Microsoft
Percentage of hosting units owned by college for internet access: 100%
Are students permitted to have webpages? – Yes
Is there online registration? – Yes
Safety
Campus Safety Services Offered: 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc)
Campus Life Overview
Percentage of undergrads that live in college-owned housing: 56%
Percentage of Male Undergrads Living in Fraternities: 39%
Percentage of Female Undergrads Living in Sororities: 18%
Percentage of students on campus on weekends: 85%
College Housing
Does the school offer students housing? – Yes
Percentage of students living in college-owned housing: 56%
Housing available for all unmarried students? – Yes
If on-campus housing is unavailable, does school provide assistance? – Yes
Available types of campus housing: coed dorms (77%), sorority housing (1%), fraternity housing (1%), apartments for married students (2%), apartment for single students (18%), special housing for disabled students (0%), other housing options (1%)
Percentage of college-owned housing units that are…
Singles: 14%
Doubles: 58%
Triples or Suites: 6%
Apartments: 22%
Other: N/A
Number of college-owned housing buildings: 16
Percentage of college-owned housing units that have…
A sprinkler system: 100%
Fire alarms: 100%
Wired high-speed internet access: 100%
Campus Size: 275 acres
Transportation (distances in miles)
Nearest airport(s): Albany, NY (10)
Nearest train station: Albany, NY (10)
Nearest bus station: Albany, NY (10)
Does public transportation serve campus? – Yes
Are all students allowed to have cars on campus? – No
Percentage of students with cars on campus: 34%
Student Employment
Is there school employment? – Yes
Percent of undergraduates that worked on campus in 2005-2006: – 33%
Average undergraduate wage: 1,600
Are freshmen discouraged from working their first term? – No
Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)
Army ROTC: Offered on campus
Navy ROTC Offered on campus
Air Force ROTC: Offered on campus
Rules and Regulations
Is legal alcohol permitted on campus? – Yes
Other policies: class attendance policies set by individual instructors, hazing prohibited, other
Campus
Most popular events: Grand Marshal Week/student government elections; Big Red Freakout; International Festival; Senior Week; Activity Fair; Black Awareness Week; Hispanic Heritage Month; Black History Month; Asian Awareness Week; Communiversity; Family Weekend; Alumni Weekend; Athletic Alumni Weekend; Minority Student Weekend; Navigating Rensselaer and Beyond.