Topic - University Of Rhode Island
Subscribe to this topic via RSS or ATOMThe University of Rhode Island, commonly abbreviated as URI, is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, with its main campus in Kingston area of South Kingstown, and three other campuses located throughout the state, including Providence's Feinstein Campus, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich. URI has 14,546 undergraduates and 4,549 graduate students. The average incoming freshmen for the fall of 2008 had a GPA of 3.36. It is a land grant, sea grant, and urban grant institution. There are many well recognized areas of study at the university including the Colleges of Engineering and Nursing, and the Graduate School of Oceanography. In 2008, U.S. News and World Report ranked it in its list of best colleges and gave it a selective rating. - Source: Wikipedia
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