RIT Alumni Referral Award

RIT’s alumni are one of our greatest assets! We thank you for the role you play in helping us to recruit the next class of RIT Tigers!

As an alumnus, you have the opportunity to nominate one undergraduate prospective student who is applying for admission to RIT for $1,000/year scholarship. This scholarship will automatically renew each year for four years, totaling $4,000 in financial support to your nominee. Please note: each applicant may receive only one nomination.

The Office of Admission must receive referral names for the 2026-2027 academic year by the application deadline for the selected admission program.

Those deadlines are:

November 1, 2025
First-year students applying Early Decision I
First-year students applying Early Action

January 1, 2026
First-year students applying Early Decision II

January 15, 2026
First-year students applying Regular Decision
Transfer Students

We are unable to consider nominations submitted after these deadlines. 

The referral must be a new student applying for this coming academic year.

The referral must apply and submit all admissions materials by the appropriate deadline.

*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.

Please direct questions to Lisa Vasaturo at lmvadm@rit.edu.