#Duly noted rpi trial
Fourteen months of successful trial led to the incorporation of the school on 21 March 1826 by the state of New York. The fact that the school attracted students from as far as Ohio and Pennsylvania is attributed to the reputation of Eaton. Tuition was around $40 per semester (equivalent to $800 in 2012 ). The school opened on Monday, 3 January 1825 at the Old Bank Place, a building at the north end of Troy. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's first senior professor and appointed the first board of trustees. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. Samuel Blatchford, in which Van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on 5 November 1824 with a letter to the Reverend Dr. As of 2017, RPI's faculty and alumni included 6 members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 6 National Medal of Technology winners, 5 National Medal of Science winners, 8 Fulbright Scholarship recipients, and a Nobel Prize winner in Physics in addition, 86 faculty or alumni are members of the National Academy of Engineering, 17 of the National Academy of Sciences, 25 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 8 of the National Academy of Medicine, 1 of the National Academy of Public Administration, and 9 of the National Academy of Inventors. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity" and recognized for its degree programs in engineering, computing, business and management, information technology, the sciences, design, and liberal arts. RPI is organized into six main schools which contain 37 departments, with emphasis on science and technology.
The institute operates an on‑campus business incubator and the 1,250-acre (510 ha) Rensselaer Technology Park. īuilt on a hillside, RPI's 265-acre (107 ha) campus overlooks the city of Troy and the Hudson River, and is a blend of traditional and modern architecture. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer and Amos Eaton for the "application of science to the common purposes of life" and is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( / r ɛ n s ə ˈ l ɪər/) ( RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. Stephen van Rensselaer of Albany to Samuel Blatchford of Lansingburgh. I have established a school at the north end of Troy, in Rensselaer county, in the building usually called the Old Bank Place, for the purpose of instructing persons, who may choose to apply themselves, in the application of science to the common purposes of life.
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