As a graduate of RIT, you know firsthand the transformative experience of an RIT education. The new RIT Alumni Referral Award gives you the opportunity to help students take a similar journey of discovery. With your referral, incoming students you believe would make a great addition to our undergraduate community automatically qualify for a $1,000* scholarship (renewable for four years, totaling $4,000) upon acceptance to RIT. This scholarship opportunity is a testament to the importance of your involvement in the lives of our future alumni.
The RIT Alumni Referral Award allows you to nominate one incoming undergraduate student applying for admission to RIT for a $1,000/year scholarship if:
- They are a new student applying for this coming academic year
- They apply and submit all admissions materials by the appropriate deadline
The Office of Admission must receive referral names for the 2025-2026 academic year by the application deadline for the selected admission program. Those deadlines are:
- First-year students applying Early Decision I – November 1, 2024
- First-year students applying Early Action – November 1, 2024
- First-year students applying Early Decision II – January 1, 2025
- First-year students applying Regular Decision – January 15, 2025
- Transfer students – January 15, 2025
Nominations submitted after the stated deadlines will not be accepted.
The referral form must be completed by the deadline to qualify them for this special award program. Scholarship dollars cannot be granted retroactively for this program, so please don't delay!
To receive the scholarship funding, nominated students must be admitted to and enroll full-time at RIT.
*Please Note: Deaf and hard-of-hearing students accepted into an associate or bachelor’s degree program and students accepted into the ASL-English interpretation program will receive the prorated amount of $500/year to reflect the lower assessed tuition rate.
