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Mission and Purpose

RSC Be Know Do


The motto of Russell Sage College, Esse Scire Facere, “To Be, To Know, To Do,” informs the educational mission and purpose where the common effort is to translate learning into action and...

Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)

Air Force

Undergraduate full-time students may enroll in the Air Force ROTC Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. This program qualifies students for commissions as officers in the U...

GPA Requirements in Major (Academic Program)

In addition to meeting cumulative GPA requirements, all students must achieve a minimum major GPA of 2.200 in order to graduate. Note that certain academic programs have higher academic standards in...

Majors & Minors

To view a program program requirements use the Majors & Minors button on the Catalog main page.

Declaration of a major program begins with the Admission application. A major is defined as sequential...

Honor Societies

The 176th chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society was installed at Sage in 1975. Students in any major may be elected to the society in the spring term of the junior or senior year. To be...

LAW 301: Health Law

This course covers the basics of managed care, what it is and why it is supposed to reduce health care costs; bioethics issues as they relate to the developing law concerning the right to die, reproductive medicine and cloning; patient...

SPA 110: Intro to Spanish for the Health Professions

The course is designed for medical students and health care professionals who want to learn basic Spanish and to be able to communicate more effectively with Spanish-speaking patients and their families in order to form strong clinical-patient...

Immunization Requirements

New York State Public Health Law requires that individuals born after December 31, 1956, provide evidence of immunization against measles, mumps, and rubella. Compliance forms are provided with...