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Rhode Island has 13 four-year degree-granting institutions active in the federal directory — 2 public, 11 private nonprofit, and 0 private for-profit.
The list below is every active, degree-granting institution IPEDS classifies at the four-year level. It is a directory, not a ranking. Two-year colleges, certificate-only schools, and institutions that have closed or stopped reporting are not here.
Four-year institutions
| Institution | City | Control | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown University | Providence | Private nonprofit | Medical school |
| Bryant University | Smithfield | Private nonprofit | |
| College Unbound | Providence | Private nonprofit | |
| Johnson & Wales University-Online | Providence | Private nonprofit | |
| Johnson & Wales University-Providence | Providence | Private nonprofit | |
| New England Institute of Technology | East Greenwich | Private nonprofit | |
| Providence College | Providence | Private nonprofit | |
| Rhode Island College | Providence | Public | |
| Rhode Island School of Design | Providence | Private nonprofit | |
| Roger Williams University | Bristol | Private nonprofit | |
| Roger Williams University School of Law | Bristol | Private nonprofit | |
| Salve Regina University | Newport | Private nonprofit | |
| University of Rhode Island | Kingston | Public | Land-grant |
Public university systems
System membership as recorded in the IPEDS directory. Counts are of four-year public members in this table only, so a system that also runs two-year campuses will show more members in its own materials.
| System | Four-year public members here |
|---|---|
| Rhode Island Board of Education | 1 |
Sources
- NCES IPEDS, Institutional Characteristics directory (HD2024) — the federal directory of postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV programs. Every institution, city, control, and system value above is read directly from that file. Retrieved 2026-08-11 from nces.ed.gov/ipeds.
- Filters applied: currently active (
CYACTIVE), degree-granting (DEGGRANT), and institutional level (ICLEVEL). Flags in the Notes column are the IPEDSHBCU,TRIBAL,LANDGRNT, andMEDICALfields.
Institution names are IPEDS legal names and sometimes differ from the name a school markets under. Check the institution's own site before relying on any detail here.
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