University of Rhode Island is a public institution that was founded in 1892. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 13,398, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 1,245 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Rhode Island's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 152.

The main campus of the University of Rhode Island (URI) is located in the village of Kingston, with three smaller campuses in various parts of the state.