University of Rhode Island Overview

University of Rhode Island is a public institution located in Kingston, Rhode Island. Kingston is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is University of Rhode Island Known For?

• The student loan default rate at URI is 2%, which is significantly lower than the national rate of 10.1%. That's great news for students who are worrying about paying off their student loans.
• The highest award offered at URI is the doctor's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 69% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from URI makes roughly $67,398 a year. This is 65% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.

Where Is University of Rhode Island?

Contact details for URI are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	Green Hall, 35 Campus Avenue, Kingston, RI 02881
Phone:	401-874-1000
Website:	web.uri.edu
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/universityofri
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/universityofri

How Do I Get Into URI?

You can apply to URI online at: https://web.uri.edu/admission

Admission Requirements for URI

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Considered but not required
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Required
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Considered but not required
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into URI?

With an acceptance rate of 76%, URI may not be as selective as some schools, but you should not take admittance for granted. Be sure to submit the best application you can.

Approximately 36% of accepted students are men and 64% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 72%, and the acceptance rate for women is 79%.

Average Test Scores

About 30% of students accepted to URI submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 550 and 650. Math scores were between 540 and 640.

URI received ACT scores from 3% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 23 and 29. Math scores were between 22 and 27. Composite scores were between 25 and 30.

Can I Afford University of Rhode Island?

The overall average net price of URI is $39,767. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At URI, approximately 64% of students took out student loans averaging $10,355 a year. That adds up to $41,420 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at URI is 1.5%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

University of Rhode Island Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 14,744 undergraduate students at URI, with 12,791 being full-time and 1,953 being part-time.

There are also 2,767 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 12,791 full-time undergraduates at URI, 43% are male and 57% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of University of Rhode Island students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	423
Black or African American	595
Hispanic or Latino	1,345
White	9,584
International Students	162
Other Races/Ethnicities	682

Geographic Diversity

Rhode Island students aren't the only ones who study at University of Rhode Island. At this time, 34 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 70 countries are represented at URI. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, India, and South Korea.

Online Learning at University of Rhode Island

In 2020-2021, 6,527 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at URI has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 4th most popular in Rhode Island for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of URI

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at University of Rhode Island was 130.2%. This is the #361 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at URI regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Tnricci under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.