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Rhode Island School of Design Acceptance Rate & Admissions Info

4 Year

Private

Not-for-Profit

Award Completions

Bachelor’s degree
Master’s degree

State Abbreviation

Rhode Island

20 WASHINGTON PLPROVIDENCE, RI 02903

Net Price

Admission Stats

Total enrollments (2022)

Average ACT

$38,234

19%

2620

31

Admission Deadlines

Competitiveness Scale

Average GPA

Average SAT

17-Jan

Competitive

3.7

1416

RISD (pronounced “RIZ-dee”) is a creative community founded in 1877 in Providence, Rhode Island. Today, we enroll 2,620 students hailing from 59 countries. Led by a committed faculty, they are engaged in 44 full-time bachelor’s and master’s degree programs and supported by a worldwide network of over 31,000 alumni who demonstrate the vital role artists and designers play in today’s society.Beyond facts and figures, what is the spirit of this community? Through a cross-disciplinary curriculum of studio-based learning and rigorous study in the liberal arts, RISD students are encouraged to develop their own personal creative processes, but they are united by one guiding principle: in order to create, one must question. In cultivating expansive and elastic thinking, RISD seeks to activate a critical exchange that empowers artists, designers and scholars to generate and challenge the ideas that shape our world.

How does college or university compare?

The acceptance rate for Rhode Island School of Design is more than 100% lower than the national average of all colleges which is around 56.7%.

Providence College47.50%
Bryant University71.00%
Roger Williams University85.40%
Wheaton College73.90%