Academic Programs
University College for Academic Success is the academic home for all incoming students, offering support for a successful first-year experience. This is the place for certified tutors, peer mentors, academic advisors, service learning opportunities, and more. College advisers also help students choose or change majors, minors, concentrations, and appropriate courses for admittance into the desired degree-granting college.
The Office of Career and Experiential Education offers more than 400 fulland part-time internships for academic credit, including one-semester and one-year programs in and outside the state. The Office also helps students find on-campus and off-campus employment, part time jobs, and internships, assess their career interests, write resumes, prepare for job interviews, find an alumni mentor, apply for graduate school, and more.
The Office of International Education and National Student Exchange offers more than 200 affiliated study-abroad programs in sixty countries. Alternative winter and spring break programs, and the Winter J-Term, take students to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Nepal, Ghana, Mexico, Belize and other locations around the globe for study, community service, and cultural experiences.
In addition to its 40 honor societies, the University offers an Honors Program for academically talented students. Honors students enjoy even smaller classes and in-depth exploration of global topics, apartment-style upper-classman housing, support for national scholarship competitions, and opportunities for research and in-depth study with faculty culminating in a senior honors project.
Majors and Degrees Offered
In all, URI offers about 80 undergraduate and 80 graduate degree programs, as well as pre-professional and certificate programs. The University is constantly developing new degrees to reflect emerging career fields, and the blended disciplines found in the global marketplace can also be found in unique URI programs that merge languages with textiles and pharmaceuticals, business with the environment, archaeology with oceanography, and more.
URI offers Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, and Bachelor of Music degrees at the undergraduate level. Dual-degree programs in International Business and International Engineering allow students to graduate with a B.S. degree in business or engineering and a B.A. degree in a foreign language.
The University also offers accelerated five-year B.S./M.B.A. programs in Industrial Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; a bachelor's-master's degree program in Speech-Language Pathology; and a six-year Doctor of Pharmacy degree. At the graduate level, URI offers Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Business Administration, Master of Environmental Science and Management, Master of Library and Information Studies, Master of Marine Affairs, Master of Music, Master of Oceanography, Master of Public Administration, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The MBA-MO program combines business with oceanography to train future leaders in the strategic management of global climate change.
Pre-professional preparation in dentistry, law, medicine, physical therapy, and veterinary studies is also available, as well as post-baccalaureate certificate programs in chemical engineering, cyber security, digital forensics, electrical engineering, gender and women's studies, interdisciplinary neurosciences, labor relations and human resources, library and information studies, nursing, and textiles, fashion merchandising and design.
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