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| University of Rhode Island | |
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| City: | Kingston, Rhode Island |
| Type: | Public |
| Sports: | baseball, basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball[1] |
| Colors: | blue, orange |
| Mascot: | Rhody (Rams) |
| Endowment: | $97.6 million[2] |
| Website: | http://www.uri.edu/ |
The University of Rhode Island (or URI) is a Rhode Island public university chartered as the state's agricultural school in 1888.[3] The school has four campuses, the flagship is located in Kingston, Rhode Island. It was ranked a third tier school in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Tier 3" list.[4]
History
Rhode Island was a land grant college, meaning Morrill's Land Grant Act (which gave each state thirty thousand acres of public land to be sold, with the profits being directed to a university) funded it (although, initially the profits went to Brown University, and did not shift to URI until 1894).[5] John H. Washburn was the school's first president.[5]
Notes
- ↑ http://gorhody.cstv.com/
- ↑ 2011 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. Retrieved on November 20, 2012.
- ↑ About the University (English) (HTML). University of Rhode Island.
- ↑ National Universities: Tier 3 (English) (HTML). US News.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 URI History and Timeline (Enlish) (HTML). University of Rhode Island.