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Some classes are very easy, I have some big lectures but I also have a few professors who I talk to often and know my name

I believe that the academics are geared toward getting a job. With the vast amounts of internships available and relation to the "real world", I believe that URI does a great job in prepping its students for the "real world".

I was a marketing major. Nothing but good things. The Business school has phenomonal majors. Although the advising is a little week at times, the classes and professors are top notch. They teach very relevent things in a manor that makes learning kind of fun (I can't believe I just said that). But I just graduated last year and have a job in Boston. I find myself applying my education in a different fashion on a daily basis.

This depends on the size of the classes. In the larger classes it is usually harder to develop any sort of relationship with the professor. These are mostly the gen ed classes though and once you jump into higher level classes the numbers decrease. My second semester here I didn't have a single class over 15 students.

like every school there are good professors and bad professors. Seeing a professor outside of class for help is ALWAYS a good idea, even if you still don't ace the class they like you better and remember your face. Everybody thinks general eds are lame but once you get through them you get to take the classes you're really into. The Honors program is awesome, Land Use and Abuse in honors is a great small class where you have a couple big projects and a whole lot of discussion and debate. Really interesting and fun. URI graduates can get jobs easily but I think most plan on coming back to school at some point, pursuing a masters somewhere else. Engineering has like a 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} job placement or something crazy.

I was a double major, and I connected with professors from one major a lot more than the other. I think that one of my majors really prepared me for schooling beyond the undergraduate level, the teachers got to know me, and cared about how I was doing, and were really excellent knowledgeable teachers, and people.

The academic part of URI is ok. The gen ed classes are a waste of time. I struggle a little bit with physics class. I went to office hours and to extra help sessions and I still didn't do as good as i wanted. All the classes though do offer extra help, and the prof. will always meet with you when you need to. Most of them you can talk to on a first name bassis, which makes it extremely comfortable.

I am an Industrial Engineer and am the only girl in my year. I have a very small class in my major therefore the student-teacher ratio is excellent, and all my professors know my name. I have to study a lot for my classes, and I do not get any free electives. The IE department has luncheons to help everyone get to know eachother and the professors have helped me out a lot with internships and projects related to my field of study.

I HATE the chemistry department at this school. The biology department isn't that bad though. I enjoy going to the classes and learning new things. My department is the Marine Biology one and it has several very prominent people in their respective fields that teach here.

As a undergraduate chemical engineering student, my graduating class was all of 9 students. Therefore, we had very close personal interaction with all of our major professors. In other courses, such as general education requirements, large lecture halls were the primary venue, and as such the professors can't be expected to know all the students' names. Those of us who do not require frequent assistance would have no reason to interact with the professors outside class time. As for the students' behavior, it depends again on whether the classes are in the major or not. In the major group, we tended to be a strongly-knit team, but were also competitive. We were required to participate in many of our major classes. The chemical engineering program (at the time of my graduation) was definitely geared toward preparing students to get a job.