USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2008: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Services & Facilities

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

110 Eighth Street
Troy, NY 12180-3590

Basic services offered:: nonremedial tutoring, placement service, day care, health service, health insurance
Remedial learning services offered:: math, writing, study skills
Counseling services offered:: minority student, career, military, personal, veteran student, academic, older student, psychological, birth control, religious

Career services include:: co-op education, on-campus job interviews, internships, resume assistance, career/job search classes, alumni network, interest inventory, interview training

Within six months of graduation:: 70%
Within one year of graduation:: N/A
Within two years of graduation:: N/A
Firms that most frequently hire graduates:: Accenture; BAE Systems; Bank of America; CGI-AMS; GE; General Dynamics; Goldman Sachs & Company; IBM; Lockheed Martin; Northrop Grumman; United Technologies; Westinghouse

School has a library on campus?: Yes
School is a member of library consortia?: Yes
Number of books, serial backfiles, and other material including government documents:: 429,290
Number of current serial subscriptions:: 50,627
Number of microforms:: 449,511
Number of audiovisual materials:: 163,602
Number of E-books:: 35,903
Additional library facilities:: The Cole Library, Architecture Library,supporting the Rensselaer at Hartford program. Rensselaer is also a member of Connect NY, a consortium of libraries within New York State whose members have rapid courier access to a combined online catalog of their collections totaling over 5,000,000 books.

Museums or special academic buildings on campus:: Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies; 800 MHz NMR spectrometer; opening in 2008 Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center with 1200-seat concert hall, 400-seat theater, 3,500-square-foot studio, sites for artists-in-residence; Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations a top 10 supercomputing center in the world; wind tunnel, geotechnical centrifuge; class 100 clean room; Electron Linear Accelerator; Plasma Dynamics laboratory, Lighting Research Center.

Students required to take a computer course?: Yes
Students required to lease/own a computer?: Yes
Number of computers available to all students:: 5,413
Internet access available to all students?: Yes
E-mail accounts available to all students?: Yes
Computers available for student use in:: computer center/labs, residence halls, library, student center

In the library (excluding computer labs):: 229
In classrooms:: 1,144
In computer labs:: 168
Elsewhere in the school/university:: 5,800
Does the school have a wireless network?: Yes
Areas where wireless network is available:: in all the libraries; in some classrooms; in computer labs; in administrative/faculty offices and work areas; in some of the college-owned, operated, or affiliated housing
Total approximate number of simultaneous users that can be accommodated by the wireless network:: 4,400
Recommended computer operating system on campus:: Microsoft Windows
Percentage of college-owned, operated, or affiliated housing units wired for high-speed Internet access:: 100%
Student webpages permitted?: Yes
Is online registration for classes available?: Yes

Campus safety and security services offered:: 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc)

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