IT at Rensselaer presents a unique opportunity for students to combine a mastery of Information Age technologies with an academic discipline of their choice.

The program looks at technologies such as computing, telecommunication, and on-line information resources like the web, and it focuses on their application to solving problems.

Rensselaer’s undergraduate and graduate IT degree programs consist of two components:

The first is a set of core courses that focus on the effective use of computers to solve problems.

The second is the concentration area in which students employ their technical expertise to a problem domain or discipline of their choice.

Each of Rensselaer’s five schools offers concentration area options to IT students. The IT curriculum draws its coursework from each of these academic schools.

Many Rensselaer faculty members representing a wide variety of the disciplines taught at the Institute contribute to this program, thereby providing students with a broad range of perspectives on IT and the breadth of its impact on the world.