Rochester Institute Of Technology
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The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private research university in Rochester, New York. It was founded in 1829. It is one of only two institutes of technology in New York state, the other being the New York Institute of Technology.

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Master of Science in Computer Engineering

  • Research tracks include: computer architecture; computer vision and machine intelligence; integrated circuits and systems; networks and security; or signal processing, control, and embedded systems.

The computer engineering masters focuses on the design and development of computer and computer-integrated systems, with consideration to such engineering factors as function, performance, security, and sustainability. Computer engineers design and build these systems to meet application and system requirements with attention to the hardware-software interaction. The program emphasizes the careful adoption of design methodology and the application of sophisticated engineering tools. The intensive programming and laboratory work requirements ensure significant, high level, specialized knowledge and experience with modern facilities and state-of-the-art design tools.

RIT’s Computer Engineering Master’s Degree

The MS in computer engineering provides you with a high level of specialized knowledge in computer engineering. You'll strengthen your ability to successfully formulate solutions to current technical problems while gaining significant independent learning experience that can prepare you for further graduate study or for continuing professional development at the leading edge of the field. The program accommodates applicants with undergraduate degrees in computer engineering or related programs such as electrical engineering or computer science. Some additional bridge courses may be required for applicants from undergraduate degrees outside of computer engineering.

The degree consists of a required course, flexible core courses, graduate electives, graduate seminar, and your choice of a thesis research or a graduate project. 

Flexible Core: You will choose one course from each of the following core clusters, with your faculty advisor’s guidance.

  • Computer Architecture and Digital Design
  • Computing, Communications and Algorithms

Graduate Electives: With advisor and department approval, you may request to take graduate courses outside of the department. The graduate electives are selected among the available research tracks. You are encouraged to choose most of your graduate electives within a single track, by consulting with your advisor. You must take a minimum of two electives from the department of computer engineering.

Thesis Research: Thesis research is an independent investigation of a research problem that contributes to the state of the art. Students who pursue the thesis option seek to answer a fundamental science/engineering question that contributes new knowledge in the field. You are expected to formulate the problem under a faculty advisor’s guidance and conduct extensive quantitative or qualitative analyses with sound methodology. A thesis committee will guide your research activities. Your findings are expected to be repeatable and generalizable, with sufficient quality to make them publishable in technical conferences and/or journals. For detailed information on thesis research timeline and requirements, please refer to Computer Engineering Thesis Research.

Graduate Project: The graduate project is a scholarly undertaking that addresses a current technical problem with tangible outcomes. The project generally addresses an immediate and practical problem, a scholarly undertaking that can have tangible outcomes. Examples of typical projects include implementing, testing, and evaluating a software and/or hardware system or conducting a comprehensive literature review with a comparative study. You are expected to give a presentation or demonstration of the final deliverables of your project. For detailed information on a graduate project timeline and requirements, please refer to Computer Engineering Graduate Project.

Computer Engineering Research Tracks

You are encouraged to choose most of your graduate electives within a single research track, by consulting with your advisor. You may take relevant courses from other academic programs, including electrical engineering, computer science, and software engineering, to support a specific research focus. The following research tracks are available:

  • Computer Architecture–Computer architecture area deals with hardware resource management, instruction set architectures and their close connection with the underlying hardware, and the interconnection and communication of those hardware components. Some of the current computer architecture challenges that are being tackled in the computer engineering department include energy efficient architectures, high performance architectures, graphic processing units (GPUs), reconfigurable hardware, chip multiprocessors, and Networks-on-Chips.
  • Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence–Visual information is ubiquitous and ever more important for applications such as robotics, health care, human-computer interaction, biometrics, surveillance, games, entertainment, transportation and commerce. Computer vision focuses on extracting information from image and video data for modeling, interpretation, detection, tracking and recognition. Machine Intelligence methods deal with human-machine interaction, artificial intelligence, agent reasoning, and robotics. Algorithm development for these areas spans image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning, and is intimately related to system design and hardware implementations.
  • Integrated Circuits and Systems–Modern processors demand high computational density, small form factors, and low energy dissipation with extremely high performance demands. This is enabled by the nanoscale and heterogeneous integration of transistors and other emerging devices at the massive-scale. Such nanocomputers will open unimaginable opportunities as well as challenges to computer engineers. This research focuses designing computers with emerging novel technologies in the presence of severe physical constraints; investigating dynamic reconfigurability to exploit the power of nano-scale electronics for building reliable computing systems; and studying the applicability of emerging technologies to address challenges in computing hardware of the future.
  • Networks and Security–The prevalence of interconnected computing, sensing and actuating devices have transformed our way of life. Ubiquitous access to data using/from these devices with reliable performance as well as security assurance presents exciting challenges for engineers and scientists. Resilient to environmental uncertainty, system failures and cyber attacks requires advances in hardware, software and networking techniques. This research track focuses on intelligent wireless and sensor networks, cryptographic engineering, and predictive cyber situation awareness.
  • Signal Processing, Control, and Embedded Systems–This research area is concerned with algorithms and devices used at the core of system that interacts with our physical world. As such, this area considers the sensing, analysis and modeling of dynamic systems with the intent of measuring information about a system, communicating this information and processing it to adapt its behavior. Application areas are robust feedback-based control where uncertainty in the dynamics and environment must be considered during the design process and signal processing algorithms and devices for system sensing and adaptation.

https://www.rit.edu/study/computer-engineering-ms 

  • The RIT online graduate application includes sections that will ask you to provide us with personal/biographical information, contact information, citizenship details, your past or current college/university and major/degree details, and test score data (if required by your degree), in addition to other profile data. If letter(s) of recommendation are required for your degree, you will be able to enter the names and contact information for each recommender. You will also be able to upload any supporting materials to your application. You may upload supporting documents while completing your online application or after you have submitted your application in your admissions portal. RIT prefers all supporting documents be submitted electronically.
  • 1st Choice Program
  • While completing your application, you will need to select the 1st choice program (i.e. major, degree) you want to apply to.
  • 2nd and 3rd Choice Program
  • At RIT, you can submit one application and indicate up to 3 program choices. We encourage you to indicate a 2nd and 3rd choice program. If you are not accepted to your 1st choice program, we will automatically facilitate a review for your other choice(s). We will contact you if additional materials are required for 2nd and 3rd choice programs. 
  • Upload a resume or curriculum vitae (CV) to your online application. Your resume or curriculum vitae (CV) should include details about your education, employment, and internship history. Pertinent research experience should be included as well.
  • One or more letters of recommendation are required for admission to all RIT graduate programs except those offered by the College of Business. Recommendations should come from members of the academic community and/or workplace professionals who know your qualifications for graduate study.
  • Submit Letter(s) of Recommendation
  • Within the online application, you are able to enter information for your recommenders and submit an email request for letters. Recommendation letters should be submitted directly to RIT from the referee/person writing the letter for you. 
  • The preferred method for the submission of recommendation letters is to use the functionality within the online application. If your recommenders are unable to submit their letters using the above method, then letters may be emailed directly by recommenders to gradinfo@rit.edu or sent by postal mail to the Office of Graduate Enrollment Services.

Only some degrees require a GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Test) or GRE (Graduate Record Examination).

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Submit Test Results

You must arrange for the testing agency to send your test results directly to RIT’s Office of Graduate Enrollment Services. Uploaded copies of your test score reports are not considered official and will not fulfill the application checklist requirement.

RIT's code for ETS reporting is 2760. You may choose any department code. All test scores will be sent to Graduate Enrollment Services in a test score file within 10-14 days regardless of the department code selected.

 Ensure that the email address used for your application matches the email used with your testing agency.

Troubleshooting
Q: I sent my test scores. Why has my application checklist not been updated?
A: If the email address or name used on your application is different than the email address or name on your score report, your test score checklist may not update to “received.” Please email gradinfo@rit.edu with this concern and note the name difference.

RIT requires transcripts from all colleges and universities that you have attended, including transcript grading keys. 
 International students should provide transcripts (or mark sheets) and degree certificates from all post-secondary institutions.

To submit your transcript(s) for application review:

  1. Upload copies or official transcript(s) with the submission of your online application, or
  2. Upload your transcript(s) through your admissions portal after you have submitted your application

Upon enrollment at RIT, you will need to contact your prior college or university and request that your official, final records be sent directly to RIT. Documents you upload are not considered official.

Start Your Application

All applicants to RIT’s graduate programs must hold—or currently be completing—a four-year baccalaureate degree, or the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree, granted by an accredited college or university.

If you have not yet completed your undergraduate coursework, your admission will be contingent upon submission of your final transcript showing the degree granted and the date of the degree.

3-Year Degrees from International Universities
RIT will review applicants with 3-year degrees from international universities. Students with 3-year degrees from India must meet all of the following conditions:

  • The college or university is  WHED recognized, and
  • The college or university is  NAAC accredited with an "A" grade, and
  • You have passed in the 1st Class (or equivalent).

If you do not meet the above requirements, you may request a WES evaluation or you would need to complete (or be in the process of) postgraduate study.

If your 3-year undergraduate degree is currently in progress, you may be admitted contingent upon obtaining your degree in the 1st class or equivalent.

Higher National Diplomas (HNDs) from Nigeria or Ghana
RIT considers Higher National Diplomas (HNDs) from Nigeria or Ghana to be comparable to US bachelor’s degrees under the following conditions: the HND is a 2-year program that followed a 2-year National Diploma (ND) or Ordinary National Diploma (OND) program, for a total of at least 4 years of post-secondary study.

We accept TOEFL iBT® and TOEFL iBT® Home Edition, IELTS Academic/IELTS Academic Online, and PTE Academic scores. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score, IELTS One Skill Retake, or Duolingo as proof of English proficiency. View the English Language Test Scores accordion within the Application Materials section of the application instructions for information about waiver eligibility and the RIT English Exam option.

Minimum Overall English Scores and Sub-Scores

  1. The numbers listed in the English Language Scores column are the overall minimum scores required for that program.
  2. In addition to the scores listed, each program requires balanced sub-scores when determining an applicant’s need for additional English language courses. For example, a minimum overall score of 88, will require sub-scores of 22 for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening.
  • Priority deadlines - Applications that are complete and received by the priority deadline listed for that degree are given priority consideration for admission and financial aid (if applicable). Applications received after the priority deadline will be considered on a space-available basis.
  • Rolling - There is no specific deadline for applications; applications will be accepted and reviewed throughout the year.

We encourage you to submit your application as early as possible. If a deadline has passed, do not let that deter you. We still welcome your application.

Deadlines may vary for each program check the below link to check the deadlines:

https://www.rit.edu/admissions/graduate-admission-deadlines-and-requirements 

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