Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 70.8%, so approximately 3/10 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.

Overview of institution

This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.

• Institution kind: Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity

• Undergrad program: Balanced arts & sciences/professions, some graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Research Doctoral: Comprehensive programs, no medical/veterinary school

• Enrollment profile: High undergraduate (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $20,695 (1.1 times the equivalent cost of Harvard).

• Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.

• Size and setting: Four-year, large, primarily residential

• In state percentage: 40% of first year students come from Rhode Island

• In US percentage: 99% of first year students come from the US

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 70.8% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 56.5%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 23.8 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 16.7 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship, Doctor’s degree: professional practice, Doctor’s degree: other

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 5570 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 14.18 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.

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Comparisons

The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. In fields where there is a common view that higher (or lower) values are better, the best values are in blue, the worst values are in red. If there isn’t a sense of a particular value being better, values are shown in varying shades of green. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.

• University of Rhode Island lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Binghamton University, University of Vermont, University of New Hampshire-Main Campus, Quinnipiac University, Salve Regina University, Suffolk University, University of Maine
• University of Rhode Island compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: Boston University, Boston College, University of Maryland-College Park, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus, University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, The University of Tampa, University at Buffalo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Fordham University, University of Delaware, Providence College, Fairfield University, James Madison University, Bentley University, University of Colorado Boulder, Temple University, State University of New York at New Paltz, Marist College, State University of New York at Cortland, Towson University, University at Albany, Drexel University, SUNY Oneonta, Bryant University, Hofstra University, Ithaca College, Stonehill College, University of Scranton, Central Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Bridgewater State University, Southern Connecticut State University, University of Hartford, Assumption University, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Rhode Island College, Keene State College, University of New England, Johnson & Wales University-Providence
• These institutions compare themselves to University of Rhode Island, but not vice versa: University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, Texas Tech University, Iowa State University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of North Carolina Wilmington, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, The New School, Miami University-Oxford, Rowan University, Texas State University, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Ohio University-Main Campus, Northern Arizona University, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Sam Houston State University, St. John’s University-New York, North Dakota State University-Main Campus, University of Wyoming, University of Akron Main Campus, Pace University, Old Dominion University, Simmons University, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, University of South Dakota, University of Southern Mississippi, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Endicott College, Champlain College, Lasell University, Claremont Graduate University, Fisher College

Enrollment

General

Teaching

Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.

Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.

Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.

Geography

This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated.

Financial Aid

Graduation

Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).

Library

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