How hard is URI to get into?
University of Rhode Island (URI) acceptance rate is 77.07% for 2023-2024 admission. A total of 25,391 students applied and 19,568 were admitted to the school. Its acceptance rate is relatively high, making it somewhat easy to get into URI.
URI's acceptance rate places 8th out of 11 Rhode Island colleges with competitive admission.
The median SAT score is 1160 and the ACT score is 28 at URI. URI's SAT score ranks 7th out of 9 Rhode Island colleges that consider SAT score for admission.
To apply to URI, recommendations and personal statement (or essay) are required to submit. The SAT and ACT score is not required, but considered for admission. In addition, english proficiency test score is also considered (required).
Admission Statistics
For the academic year 2023-24, URI's acceptance rate is 77.07% and the yield (also known as enrollment rate) is 16.81%. 9,476 men and 15,903 women applied to URI and 7,000 men and 12,557 women students were accepted.
7 applicants who has another gender applied and 6 were accepted.5 accepted students' gender is unknown.
Among them, 1,285 men and 1,997 women were enrolled in URI (Fall 2023).
Data source: IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) (Last update: December 11, 2024)
Median SAT and ACT Score
In 2024, 709 students (22% of enrolled) have submitted their SAT scores and 77 students (2%) have submitted their ACT scores for seeking degrees at URI.
The median SAT score is 1,160 with 590 SAT EBRW and 570 SAT Math median scores. The 75th percentile SAT score of EBRW (Evidence-Based Reading / Writing) is 650 and the 25th percentile is 520. The SAT Math 75th percentile score is 620 and 25th percentile is 510 .
The median ACT composite score is 28 with 75th percentile score of 31 and 25th percentile score of 26 at URI.
How competitive is URI's score?
The SAT and ACT scores at University of Rhode Island are relatively high compared to similar colleges (SAT: 1,121, ACT: 23 - public research university with high research activity).
The institutional SAT code for URI is 3919 and 4-digt code ACT code is 3818.
Data source: IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) (Last update: December 11, 2024)
First-year Enrollment by Gender and Enrolled Type
For the academic year 2023-24, total 3,289 first-year students enrolled in URI. The proportion of full-time students is 99.24% and part-time students is 0.76%.
By gender, the proportion of men students is 39.07% and women students is 60.72%. 0.15% of students has another gender and 0.06% students' gender is unknown.
The following table shows the first-year students by gender and enrolled type at URI.
Data source: IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) (Last update: December 11, 2024)
Application Requirements
It requires to submit High School GPA, High School Record (or Transcript), Completion of College Preparatory Program, Recommendations, English Proficiency Test, and Personal statement or essay to its applicants.
The SAT and ACT test score is not reqired, but considered in admission process at URI. The english proficiency test is reqired .
The next table summarizes the application requirements to apply University of Rhode Island.
For more admission information such as minimum GPA and deadlines, see its online application page .
General Admissions Information
The application fee is $65 for applying undergraduate schools and $103 for for applying graduate schools at University of Rhode Island. The following table provides general admission information for applying to URI.