At the College of Arts and Sciences, we invite you to discover your place in the world.
URI offers you choices that give you a competitive edge in the global marketplace. You can double major, add minors, choose an international focus, and acquire cross-disciplinary knowledge and experiences. Our programs include disciplines in the arts and design, communications and media, humanities, natural sciences and math, and social sciences. Whatever you choose, we’ll prepare you to succeed in a way that is as unique as you are. Our goal is to prepare you to become a well-informed global citizen with the knowledge, flexibility, and skills required to flourish in a rapidly evolving world.
News & Spotlights
URI Theatre’s ‘Proof’ explores family, grief, value of women’s voices - Production’s two-weekend run starts Oct. 16
For the love of the game: URI students travel to Ireland to cover, experience international sporting community - Nine students created storytelling and content as part of inaugural study-abroad program. 
Two URI physics professors receive NSF awards to further study science behind black holes - Derek Davis and Deborah Ferguson using respective funding to improve detection, identification of black holes
Cameras still rolling at URI two decades later
URI astrophysics student earns coveted Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGHPC fellowship - Genevieve Payne one of seven students worldwide to receive 2026 fellowship.
Events
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