Hey everyone, thanks for joining us here in Terre Haute, Indiana. I'm Jessica Woody. We're about to get a VIP tour of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Hey, by the way, did you know this is the home of the Fighting Engineers? Hope you're ready for this tour. Let's go. 

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 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is in the mid-size residential and recreational Midwestern town in Terre Haute, Indiana. Rose-Hulman South Campus where RH Ventures is located is just a 10-minute drive down the road. 

 About an hour away from Indianapolis, Indiana just to the west. We're in a 3-hour radius of several larger cities that students may choose to road trip to on a weekend, St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago area. 

 Rose-Hulman's main campus is 200 acres of rolling hills, lavish trees, lakes and streams. 

 It's kind of silly but it smells good here. The air is clean. There are lots of trees and squirrels. It feels a little bit like being at summer camp all year round, to tell you the truth. I feel like I live in a camp. 

 The student to faculty ratio is 12 to 1 at RH. Plus, there's a total of 1,950 students, 80 percent are male and 20 percent are female. Hey, hey ladies. 

 So I bet you won't find another car like this one. This is the Bollinger Space Wagon. A student built this as a senior project. It could fit a few of my friends in here. 

 Students looking to be admitted into Rose-Hulman Institute need a minimum SAT math score of 550 or 500 SAT Critical Reading score, an ACT math score of 24 or 21 on English and be in the top 20 percent of their high school class. 

 We look at it as the transcript. We will make sure the students take in the right kinds of courses. We look for hopefully As and Bs. And typically students are gonna be in the top 20 percent of their graduating class, both the SAT or ACT results, and we also like the students that are involved in multi activities. 

 Annual tuition for all students is around 34,000 dollars including fees plus room and board as about an additional 9,000 dollars. 

 You can think of Rose-Hulman Ventures as an on-campus internship program. You work with leading technology based companies to identify project needs that they have, and then bring those projects here or hire Rose-Hulman students to work in the program and then aid internship roles, and the projects range from all industries. 

 While all 15 majors at Rose-Hulman are in engineering and science, they also offer extensive humanity components with 14 minors and 130 courses. 

 Our big focus is learning how to work with people in a lot of disciplines. Now when students leave here and get a job somewhere, they're not gonna be working with people who are just from their background, they're gonna have to learn how to, you know, if you're a chemical engineer, how do you work with mechanical engineers, chemist, and physicist. 

 I hear from people who hire our students that our students are hardworkers, that they are creative problem solvers, and that they are able to take knowledge from different fields and put it together in ways that engineers and scientists really need to be able to do over the next century, I think. The world is changing and you can't just focus on one thing anymore and be an expert in one narrow area. You have to be able to talk to people from many different areas and that be able to work with people from different cultures. 

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 Just to give you an idea what the students here at Rose can do, check out their entry to the Challenge X engineering competition. A group of students from several different programs worked together to build the electrical and mechanical parts of this hybrid car. Pretty much, I have no idea what I'm looking at right now. 

 Some student favorites are mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, and civil engineering. 

 Rose has earned the US news ranking as one of the best schools for engineering plus this is the first university in the United States to offer degree in chemical engineering. 

 Rose-Hulman even has an Army and an Air Force ROTC program. 

 Ninety-four percent of Rose-Hulman's faculty are full-time and 99 percent hold their PhD. 

 Our professors are one of the greatest things about this place. We get a lot of one on one attention with them and it's especially helpful on our senior projects and things like that. They don't have a problem, you know, you coming in into their office and talking to them for an hour or so, if that's what you need. 

 The Rose-Hulman Fighting Engineers currently compete in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference and the NCAA Division 3. 

 We have a ton of sports scene more so than other schools, I think. And I think just being a small campus here and you can actually get on the teams, you know. You don't have to be some star athlete to join say the tennis team or the track team. And there's a lot of intramurals. 

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 You won't have to worry about finding a place to live when you come to Rose because freshmen are guaranteed housing in one of these 9 residence halls here on campus. Oh, this is nice. 

 The rooms actually here are better than most places I've seen. We've got a couple of new ones. We have--I live in an apartment building that's on campus, and it was just filled within the last 4 years. And so, those are great. 

 Get off your butt and join one of Rose-Hulman's 60 available clubs and organizations including 27 intramural and 15 sports clubs or go great with one of the 8 fraternities and 3 sororities. 

 We have over 60 clubs and organizations for student to be involved with on our campus. We have everything from drama club, which is very active here. Probably around 95 percent of our students do intramural sports here. Religious organizations. We have a club for every major and academic competition teams. You know, they're not limited by their major. 

 When I was a senior, I was working on a science fair project and our school didn't have enough money for me to run the special task and I called Rose-Hulman and I was actually able to come here and work with a professor, finishing it up and I was able to present it at the state science fair. So, it meant a lot to me that a college would just let me come in and run an extensive task. 

 Whether you're interested in math, science or engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology would be the perfect fit for you. Well, time for us to head out. For Youniversity TV, I'm Jessica Woody. We'll catch you next time. 

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