University of Rhode Island is a public institution that was founded in
1892.
It
has a total undergraduate enrollment of 13,354,
its setting is rural,
and the campus size is 1,245 acres.
It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar.
University of Rhode Island's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges
is National Universities,
161.
Its in-state tuition and fees are $12,506 (2014-15); out-of-state
tuition and fees are $28,072 (2014-15).
The main campus of the University of Rhode Island is located in the
village of Kingston, with three smaller campuses in various parts of the
state. The university began as an agricultural school, and a renovated
farmhouse has stood on the Kingston campus for more than a century. Now,
URI offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and many master's programs
as well, including those in the School of Education, the College of Business Administration and College of Engineering.
Outside the classroom, students can get involved in more than 100
campus organizations or pledge one of the roughly 20 fraternities and
sororities. URI students can also leave campus and make a short trip to
the beach or to the state capital of Providence. Student athletes can
play at the recreational, club or varsity level. Most of the nearly 20
URI Rams sports teams compete in the NCAA Division I Atlantic 10
Conference, cheered on by their mascot Rhody. Notable URI alumni include
oceanographer Robert Ballard, who discovered the sunken Titanic, and
journalist Christiane Amanpour.
We are the largest university in the nation's smallest
state, but with over 13,000 undergraduates and 3,000 graduate students,
URI is small enough to be friendly, intimate, safe, and
student-centered. Our students come from most states in the U.S. and
dozens of countries all over the world. More than 100 undergraduate and
80 graduate degree programs, plus more than 100 student clubs and
activities spark creativity and inspire our students' pioneering spirit.
Perfectly located six miles from Rhodes Island's coastal beaches and
easy driving distances from Providence, Boston, and New York, our
picturesque rural setting is close enough to big-city culture to make
anyone feel at home.
