Type: Public
State: Rhode Island
Website: www.uri.edu/admissions


Quick Overview:
Social gatherings and student publications are popular, off campus food is good as well as the university's library.


The word from: the Students
It's a nice medium sized school with a very good location. Among their best majors we can find nursing, engineering and sciences. The pharmacy program is well acclaimed nation wide and very competitive. Classes are rigorous at URI, for the grand part, while the others can even be very easy, but when it comes to help it can be found for both cases. Resources are always available, good ones even. There are really good teachers in URI, very knowledgeable in their fields and very helpful, always offering their free time to lend an hand to a student in need of aid, there are however teachers that are the opposite, cancelling classes and don't offer that much help in academics. Not only the teachers at URI receive this kind of dual review, the administration can be either very helpful or simply too bureaucratic at times, not looking into what really matters in the university very often.

URI is a beautiful school to study in, located on a big hill, in a rural area. Some of the dorm buildings may not have the best conditions possible but since so many students go home for the weekend, the great majority leave nearby, it's not a very big issue. Involvement in the campus activities is key for a good social experience in URI, sports teams are very popular among students, such as basketball and hockey. Being close to very nice beaches lets students enjoy water sea activities like surfing and swimming. Policies concerning alcohol are very strict, maybe above average, but that doesn't really stop students from getting wasted. Much of the social life at URI happens off campus, with parties a mere 15 minutes away, huge house parties almost every weekend at Narragansett, bars are popular as well. Urban activities lovers might just have to travel a bit to Providence.

For in-state students, URI is a very affordable option, as for out-state ones, mostly come from wealthy families or have scholarships. The student body has many typical college students that go to college for the social aspect of it. Most of the population is composed of guys that want to party and drive expensive cars and girls that wear expensive accessories and clothes. The political view is, in general, liberal, but very apathetic to politics. There isn't a great variety of ethinicities and even the ones that do exist don't mix.