Welcome to Merit

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RIT uses Merit to publish stories about your accomplishments. Merit lets students share their successes — such as making the Dean’s List, joining a club or fraternity/sorority, studying abroad, getting a job and even graduating — with their friends and family through their social media networks and their hometown newspapers. Each RIT student also gets a Merit profile page. New students should have received an email from Merit this week with a link to their profile page. Current students should already have a Merit profile page.

Once students sign into their profile page, they can upload photos and post activities such as joining a club or starting a co-op. University News writes stories about specific achievements, such as making the Dean’s List or joining the Honors Program. These stories are posted to the students’ profiles and sent to the students’ hometown newspapers and state representatives, based on their ZIP code. Students can also share their achievements through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Tumblr.

Merit also lets students keep their friends, parents and others updated with the “follow” feature. Much like Facebook and Twitter, students can let others follow their achievements, as well as follow fellow Merit users.

University News uses Merit in accordance with RIT’s student privacy policy. Students may choose to opt-out of the Merit program at any time.

For more information, go to the Merit Pages website or email univnews@rit.edu. For help on signing in, personalizing your page and other questions, go to the Merit pages help webpage. To see a list of recently granted achievements, go to the RIT Merit pages website.