[2] The College of Rizal opened its classes on July 14, 1969, with course offerings in business administration, education and liberal arts.

674 The decree authorized the expansion of curricular programs and promotion of researches in the development and conservation of natural resources in the Province of Rizal.

One was to transfer the management and administration of the RTC to one of the existing towns in the Province of Rizal or Metro Manila.

Through the support of then Metropolitan Manila Governor Imelda Marcos, the RTC constituency, with the Kabataang Barangay School Chapter of the RTC, and the Collegiate and High School Faculty Clubs at the forefront of the struggle for survival, President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed into law Presidential Decree 1341-A on April 1, 1978, converting the Rizal Technological Colleges into a State College.

[citation needed] After 19 years, the college was converted into the Rizal Technological University on October 11, 1997, by virtue of Republic Act (RA) No.

In 2018, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) expressed its support to RTU in a proposed construction of an extension campus in Baras, Rizal and set to be the hub of astronomical research in the Philippines and home of CARD.

The Laboratory School provides secondary curriculum with added technology-based subjects such as electronics, civil technology, drafting, metal works and machine shop, business technology for boys and girls, food trades and garment trades for girls only.

The RTU - Laboratory School also serves as the training center for the pre-service teachers of the College of Education.

[5] The following are the varsity sports at RTU: Basketball, Volleyball, Chess, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Athletics, Baseball, Softball, Swimming, Boxing, Cheer dance, Dance Sports, Track and Field, Sepak Takraw, Badminton, Taekwondo, Arnis, Beach Volleyball.