University of Rhode Island Top Questions

URI is a mid-to-large size school, but it has a small school feel. You will become very close with your peers and, if you take the initiative, you can receive individual attention from your professors. There is a lot of partying, but there are also those who take their academics very seriously. The administration's alcohol policy has pushed the burden of dealing with parties and drinking onto the surrounding community, which causes a strain on the relationship between students and local residents. However, there is an effort from both sides to repair that damaged relationship.

URI has been pretty good to me so far. I have some complaints in th engineering college, but i don't think URI is directly in charge of that. I don't like all the budget cuts lately, and how they had to cut some sports teams. I had freinds directly affected by that, and they're leaving URI because of it. Generally people are impressed when i say i'm in the chemical engineering department at URI, and a german major. I don't think anyone would be that impressed if i was there for liberal arts. It's an average performing school in other regular majors. There really isn't a lot of school pride, probably due to the fact that the football team is so dissapointing. I like URI because it's very close to my home, because i live at home, and i have horses that i can still take care of.

The location of the campus is perfect. At URI you're only ten minutes from the beach, twenty minutes from Newport and about a half an hour from Providence. There's always something to do and since freshmen can have cars on campus, there's also always somewhere fun to go. The top of campus includes a wide variety of dining options including a coffee shop, chinese food, mexican food, pizza, wraps, subway, quiznos, wings, fries and ice cream. You can find anything you're in the mood for, plus most of the restaurants will deliver right to your dorm. Although some of the buildings are old and need their interiors improved, the exteriors of many buildings are beautiful. The old stone buildings give a very new england college appeal and really make the campus look nice. The quad on campus is always filled with people playing frisbee, football, sunbathing, and even studying when the weather is nice. Slip and slides and moon bounces have also been known to be set up as well. Overall, URI has a very fun and personable atmosphere. There are about 15,000 undergraduates, but the school seems smaller because everyone you walk by will offer up a friendly smile.

Good people. The food. Just right. Cool. Friends rooms. Lots of school pride. Bad food.

Music department is a piece of shit. Program requires ridiculous amounts of work for a near useless degree. Quality of music is poor, quality of student musicians is poor. I feel like the quality of all other classes is a crapshoot, sometimes you get a good teacher, sometimes you dont. The quality of education is not consistent, even throughout different sessions of the same class. FOr example: You might take WRT104, and in one class the students may be told that the final assignment is cancelled "because there is not enough time left in the semester", yet in another session, with a different teacher, the students are required to do it. There needs to be consistency.

It's a nice school because I love the fact that they offer so much help for upcoming freshman and upperclassmen. The environment is pleasant which is something I like. The school is just right, it's not too big or too small. When people heard that I got into URI, they all assume that I'm really smart, but really I just try hard in school. There has been a recent controversy about how the school is cutting out sports because of school budget. The school pride is okay.

The best thing about URI is the off campus housing. The houses are cheap, big, and in communities composed primarily of students. If I were going to change one thing about URI, it'd be the locals who decide to live year round in the student communites. They screw things up by surrounding themselves in communities where kid's are trying to party on the weekends (and alot of the time the week), and end up calling the cops. This year the locals enacted an ordinance which allowed the police to fine home leasing students large sums of money for having more than 5 kids in a house. This is being challenged by some national lawyer group that defends college students rights, and since the ordinance has been proven unconstitutional, it should be repealed. The college is a perfect size I think at around 14,000. You can walk across campus and see a bunch of friends on the way and in class, and you will never run out of new girls to meet.

If were to be born again, I would go to URI again. To me URI is perfect, it has changed my life.

when i went to orientation, i hated the school. i thought it was huge and the worst school ever. After the first week i found out that uri was perfect. The size was great and most of the professors were really nice. The dorms were nice for freshman and the food was actually good. One thing i would change would be to get ice cream in HOPE

URI is awesome - my only regret is not having been more involved on campus or in clubs. Living on campus was cool, and the QUAD is the best part! On a bright sunny day, You see a whole bunch of people doing whatever they want to do-- and thats cool! studying or throwing a frisbee everyone's having fun!