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Rochester Institute of Technology MA in American Sign Language

The main focus area for this major is Sign Language Interpretation & Translation. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.

American Sign Language is a major offered under the foreign languages and linguistics program of study at Rochester Institute of Technology. Here, you’ll find out more about the major master’s degree program in ASL, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.

If there’s something special you’re looking for, you can use one of the links below to find it:

• Graduate Cost
• Online Learning
• Student Diversity
• Focus Areas
• References

How Much Does a Master’s in ASL from RIT Cost?

RIT Graduate Tuition and Fees

Part-time graduates at RIT paid an average of $2,089 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$50,136	$50,136
Fees	$306	$306

Does RIT Offer an Online MA in ASL?

Looking for online learning options? Good news, you can take online classes in the ASL master’s degree program at RIT. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the RIT Online Learning page.

RIT Master’s Student Diversity for ASL

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 7 master’s degrees in ASL handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

All of the students who received their MA in ASL in 2019-2020 were women.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Around 14.3% of ASL master’s degree recipients at RIT in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 28%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

MA in ASL Focus Areas at RIT

American Sign Language students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Sign Language Interpretation & Translation	7

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.