University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island (URI) offers more than 100 bachelor's degrees (nursing is the most popular), as well as master's, doctoral, and professional degrees from nine colleges at four campuses across the state. Its main campus is in Kingston, while the W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich offers environmental education. URI's Graduate School of Oceanography is located on Narragansett Bay; and Providence is home to the university's Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education. URI has an enrollment of more than 16,000 students. The university was chartered as the state's agricultural school in 1888.