About University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research college circles with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island. It is the flagship public research as skillfully as the land-grant academic world of the welcome of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in the village of Kingston in southern Rhode Island. Additionally, smaller campuses add up the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich.

The academe offers bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctoral degrees in 80 undergraduate and 49 graduate areas of investigation through eight academic colleges. These colleges insert Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Professional Studies, Engineering, Health Sciences, Environment and Life Sciences, Nursing, and Pharmacy. Another college, University College for Academic Success, serves primarily as an advising theoretical for anything incoming undergraduates and follows them through their first two years of enrollment at URI. It is classified among “R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity”. As of 2019, the University of Rhode Island enrolled 14,653 undergraduate students, 1,982 graduate students, and 1,339 non-degree students.

Kingston is a village and a census-designated place in the town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States, and the site of the main campus of the University of Rhode Island. The population was 6,974 at the 2010 census. Much of the village center is listed upon the National Register of Historic Places as Kingston Village Historic District. It was originally known as Little Rest.