The University of Rhode Island, founded in 1892, is a public research university located in Rhode Island. * * * Undergraduate students 14546, graduate students 4549. Rhode Island University is an institution with land grant, island grant and city grant. The school has many famous research fields, including pharmacy and nursing college.
College * * * has seven different colleges, with more than 100 majors, among which the most popular majors are communication, psychology, nursing, human development and family studies. In 2008, the University of Rhode Island was rated as one of the best universities in the United States by US News and World Report, and its academic reputation was ranked 120 in the United States, giving a selective evaluation.
Courses offered by the school include:
Arts and sciences, business research, engineering, humanities, environment and life sciences, nursing and pharmacy. Another university college mainly serves undergraduates. At present, the University of Rhode Island has more than12,900 undergraduates and about 2,900 postgraduates. In 20 14, the school ranked 152 in the latest comprehensive ranking of the United States published by USNEWS.
The University of Rhode Island has four campuses. In addition to the main campus, the other three campuses are located in feinstein in Providence, Narragansett Bay in Narragansett and Walton Jones in West Greenwich.