Both my wife and I went to RIC. Served us well. I don’t know of it having a bad rep. Only that some programs are better elsewhere.

USPS has been replacing all of the blue mailboxes with boxes that only allow you to slide letters and flat mail in through a slot with teeth. This is to prevent “phishing”, where thieves literally send string down the opening with sticky glue or gum on the end to fish out all the mail. (Happened way more than people realize.) These boxes appear to be welded shut but actually have a slit for an opening at the top. Thieves across the country have responded by straight up robbing letter carriers for their keys though so not sure that plan worked out successfully. If the boxes are painted green they are not mailboxes at all, simply storage boxes for letter carriers on foot. (Pawtucket and Lincoln have many of these)

The worst parts about RIC: No one graduates in four years. Do you need to take two classes that are sequential? Guess what- they’re not offering the first one at all this academic year but they are offering the second one but you can’t take it yet. This happens ALL. THE. TIME. The likelihood of completing one major in 4 years is tough let alone 3. Unless things have changed since I was there about 10 yrs ago.

You will be in classes with students who don’t try, don’t care, and are frankly not very intelligent (students getting a business degree). And a lot of the teachers I had just accepted it. So you have to keep yourself motivated and/or find the limited number of other students who are. There are leadership programs at RIC and through LRI- join those if you can.

You pretty much figured it out on your own, just ask yourself why would the usps spend the money and manpower to go around welding every box closed? That's probably the reason they did it. My guess people were urinating in them and lighting them on fire or something to that effect. So yeah pretty much, so bad that we can't even have mail boxes anymore. Sad.

There ain't nothing wrong with RIC my friend. It's cheaper, more reliable, less likely to be "student number*****. So the sports program isn't top notch but unless you are there to play sports who cares. You get a fine education there. Is it your high class school no. But I went to Keene myself. If you are there to learn RIC is fine if you are going college to party and rebel then URI. It comes down to what you put in equals what you get out.

Sounds like you’re talking to classist assholes…there’s absolutely nothing about RIC having a bad reputation that’s legitimate. It’s an accredited school that offers the same degrees as any other “big name” school without the price tag. I left with a double major BA and a Masters degree with 1/4 the debt of anyone else in my peer group who went elsewhere.

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I went to RIC for a couple of years for the basics and then transferred to URI for Marine studies. Saved a ton, and URI had to accept my class credits. The math classes are actually better at RIC too.

As for the rep, the comment a degree is a degree is true with the exception of, say, Harvard. Once you're in the workplace and prove yourself, nobody cares.

Yeah education, art/music, and a lot of humanities are way better at RIC. When I was at URI, it was clear they had invested approximately $0 in anything that wasn’t STEM, student housing, or communications (for some reason).

From my experience working restaurants around ri is that ric grads tend to get fucked over a lot. Like the degree is a degree but it isn't a good networking thing like jwu or uri can be for certain majors. It's not a bad school but you have to do your own networking for a job out of it and if you don't it's essentially useless

Just a point about affordability: if you’re any kind of decent student, URI gives you a $5,000 scholarship (though maybe it’s higher now). I graduated in 2019 and only paid like $4,000 a semester for tuition.

If you’re going to be living in Westerly, it’ll be much easier to commute to URI. Most URI students move off campus and a lot of people consider it a commuter school.

Depends on your major. RIC is well regarded for education and nursing, and I believe their social work program is also well thought of.

I went to undergrad there and didnt know what I wanted to do and left with a BA in psych with a management minor which was enough to get me into corporate/office type jobs that required a 4 year degree at a minimum.

I later went back for grad school for my masters & CAGs in mental health counseling (not social work) and found the program to be very good. Affordable, small, closeby college and I felt my education was more than sufficient & affordable. YMMV based on other majors.

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Not your parent but if you’re not wealthy or don’t care about getting the “college experience” just go to RIC.

Also, if you’re not wealthy you should reconsider those majors.

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Probably gonna get some shit for this comment, but: the rigor of a given college is often dependent on the ability/dedication of its median student. People who become tenured professors at a place like RIC are for the most part super capable, but you have to adjust the difficulty and rigor of your courses for your audience.

I have a small sample size, but I took some time off from a fancy school and took some classes at both RIC and URI while I was on leave. The classes were way, way easier than the ones at the university I got a degree from — particularly the two I took from RIC — but a lot of my classmates struggled.

In contrast, I was a completely average student at my full time university, and had to work hard for good grades, especially in STEM courses. (And in a couple cases, had to work hard just to pass a course)

So I think that it just entirely depends on what kind of student you are, what your plans are after college, how hard you want to work, etc. It’s not that RIC is “bad” but if you are a high achieving student and you like to be challenged, you might get frustrated there. RIC is also a college, not a university, so it doesn’t have as many opportunities for research. Etc.

One of their calls sounds like that but they also have a bunch of others including some real terrifying ones they can pull out just for when I'm solo camping!

There was one near me once in Newport, not sure if we still get them but I’ve heard normal owls every night

Touch of class in providence

I use New England car and van wash in EG in the winter when I don't want to hand wash. They pull it through a tunnel but the system they use hasnt caused any issues with my paint. They vacuum it out, run it through the wash, then wipe the interior down and clean the glass. Good luck!

In state is $18k and out of state is $40k.

So why UConn exactly?

As a lab scientist I can say RIC isn't exactly known for it's science program, but it's not a bad place for many majors! I can't knock it

What is their tuition?