Your gift to the Five Frontiers of Excellence will fund The Rensselaer Plan and significantly strengthen Rensselaer's endowment. The endowment provides the fundamental financial underpinning of the university, and, as such, ensures its sustainability over time, and positions the Institute to continue to serve and support our students and the faculty who teach them now and into the future. Endowment is a key measure of the strength of a university and enables us to support needy students, to attract the best faculty, and to maintain and create new exciting programs.
The Five Frontiers of Excellence include: