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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
TroyBuilding.JPG
The Troy Building
Motto Knowledge and Thoroughness
Type Private
Established 1824
Endowment US $793 million
President Shirley Ann Jackson
Provost Robert Palazzo
Academic staff
 496
Undergraduates 5,394
Postgraduates 2,127
Location
United States Troy
,
New York
,
USA
Campus Urban, 275 acre
Athletics 23 varsity teams
2 Division I
21 Division III
Colors Cherry and White          
Mascot The Red Hawk and Puckman
Website www.rpi.edu

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI is a private university in Troy, NY. It was made in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer because he wanted there to be schools that taught science and engineering. It is the oldest engineering school in America. Lots of students from RPI get jobs that pay a lot of money after they leave RPI. Some people who went to RPI have started big companies like NVIDIA, John Wiley and Sons, and Texas Instruments. George Low, an American who helped get spaceships into space, went to RPI.

What RPI focuses on has changed a lot since it was first made. There still is a lot of engineering at the school, but now there is growing arts and social studies teaching at the school. A big concert hall called EMPAC was opened in 2008 at RPI.

Most of RPI's sports teams play in NCAA Division III, which does not allow athletic scholarships. The men's and women's ice hockey teams play as Division I teams in ECAC Hockey. The hockey teams are can award scholarships because of a special NCAA rule.



Images for kids

  • StephenVanRensselaerIIIPortrait

    Stephen van Rensselaer, founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Rensselaer School 1824

    Engraving of the original Rensselaer School

  • RPI Engraving 1879

    Engraving of RPI in 1876

  • RusselSageLabs

    Russell Sage Laboratory

  • VorheesComputingCenter

    The Voorhees Computing Center

  • BiotechCenterRPI

    Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

  • RPIAcademyHall

    Academy Hall

  • LowCenterRPI

    The Low Center for Industrial Innovation, northeast hub of the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute

  • Biotech Center RPI

    Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

  • IBM Blue Gene P supercomputer

    A Blue Gene/P supercomputer similar to Rensselaer's Center for Computational Innovations

  • RPIQuad

    Rensselaer's Quadrangle dormitory on the central campus

  • Theta Chi Phi

    The Theta Chapter of Chi Phi at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Rensselaer Society of Engineers clubhouse (rear view)

    The RSE Clubhouse from the South Side near the "Freshman Hill" dorms

  • Lacrosse at the Olympics, London, 1948. (7649951098)

    RPI's lacrosse team in a demonstration game at the 1948 London Olympics

  • RPIHoustonFieldHouse

    Houston Field House

  • RPIAthleticVillage

    East Campus Athletic Village, under construction

  • RPIStudentUnion

    Student Union

  • RPIPlayhouse2

    The RPI Playhouse

See also

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