About Providence College

Providence College (Providence or PC) is a private, Catholic the academy in Providence, Rhode Island. With a 2019 enrollment of 4,367 undergraduate students and 523 graduate students, the assistant professor specializes in academic programs in the highly developed arts. It is the only literary or academic circles in North America administered by the Dominican Friars.

Founded in 1917, the scholastic offers 49 majors and 34 minors and, beginning subsequently the class of 2016, requires whatever its students to complete 16 credits in the Development of Western Civilization, which serves as a major part of the college’s core curriculum (down from 20 credits previously). Fr. Kenneth R. Sicard became the school’s 13th president upon July 1, 2020, replacing Fr. Brian Shanley.

In athletics, Providence College competes in the NCAA’s Division I and is a founding aficionada of the original vast East Conference and Hockey East. It was share of the original six new basketball-centric Catholic colleges which broke off from the original gigantic East (today’s American Athletic Conference) to form the current huge East at the Begin of the 2013–14 academic year.

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the let pass of Rhode Island and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the Place in tribute of “God’s merciful Providence” which he believed was liable for revealing such a marina for him and his followers. The city is situated at the mouth of the Providence River at the head of Narragansett Bay.

Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent robot tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and seven institutions of future learning which have shifted the city’s economy into serve industries, though it yet retains some manufacturing activity.

With an estimated population of 179,883, Providence is the third-most-populous city in New England after Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts.