<p>It sounds like RPI has some agreements with local colleges to accommodate language studies. I've reached a high level in three languages besides my native English and want to continue studying languages along with engineering and computer science in college. I wondered if anyone on CC had gone to RPI and taken advantage of these cross agreements with surrounding colleges. Was it practical and transportation ok? Easy to arrange and get credit? At which partner college did you take classes and in which subjects?</p>
If I was interested in pursuing language studies, I wouldn’t be doing it at RPI. RPI’s own web site lists the partner schools, the distance away, and a Capital District Transportation Authority bus schedule. I expect that’s about all the help you’d get.
If you are serious about continuing your language studies, I would strongly recommend that you look for a full-blown university that has a good school of engineering within it. I don’t believe RPI will have what you’re looking for.
Russell Sage and Hudson Valley Community College are both close, but you might have already exceeded the offerings at those schools. The next options would be SUNY Albany and Siena College. There is a bus you can take from RPI to Siena. I think you would need to take 2 buses to get to SUNY Albany. The buses run fairly frequently. The service is CDTA (Capital District Transportation Authority) and it’s free for local college students.
In the end I decided not to apply. My intended major is CS and in light of my UC’s and other top rated private schools program ratings for CS plus the lack of langage offerings - these pushed RPI off the apply-to grid.