RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, PROVIDENCE, RI
This inspiring school seated in the city of Providence offers students a studio arts experience balanced with the liberal arts. RISD challenges its students to break down their art to its foundational elements and then rebuild something more.
• Private
• Undergraduate enrollment – about 2100
• Admit rate –
• Financial Aid forms required – FAFSA
• Retention rate – 95%
• Mid 50% SAT/ACT range –
• 84% of classes have fewer than 20 students
• Student to faculty ratio –
CURRICULUM
• Strongest/popular majors: Illustration & Painting and Fine Arts is growing/on the rise
• What are your unique and/or specialty majors: Industrial Design
• What makes your college unique
offers 6 concentrations
Cross-registration in any liberal arts courses at Brown
Offers dual degree options with Brown (extremely competitive <3% admit rate)
21-week Honors program in Rome
• Common Curriculum known as Experimental & Foundation Studies, includes liberal arts bent
• Students are guaranteed their first choice major (provided meet requirements)
• Winter sessions are required for all first year students
STUDENT BODY
• Seek creative, curious and independent students
• Weekend life is found on and off campus – so much to do in Providence
• Clubs & activities may also be co-organized with Brown (across the street)
• 43% BIPOC | 14% First Gen | 34% International
• No Greek Life
ADMISSIONS PROCESS
• Student portfolio carries the most weight and reviewed by staff and faculty (pre-reads are offered); breadth resonates most
• All applications read in context
• Apply to school in general not to a specific major
photo courtesy Rhode Island School of Design
