Rhode Island College acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

Rhode Island College is a public university in Rhode Island that admits most qualified applicants (around 92%), which puts it in the accessible range. A rate like this means it admits most qualified applicants; the bar is less about clearing a single cutoff and more about how your full profile compares to admitted students.

Use this page to see what Rhode Island College weighs, where it ranks among Rhode Island schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1180, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at Rhode Island College with a 3.1 GPA and a 1000 SAT?

About 98% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1000 SAT, the middle of Rhode Island College's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1120 SAT comes out near 98%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

Estimates, not guarantees. Get yours with your real courses and activities. Assistants and developers can fetch this table from the free API: /api/v1/colleges/rhode-island-college.

Getting into Rhode Island College comes down to four decisions, each one visible in the data on this page.

4,988 students applied to Rhode Island College for fall 2023; 4,045 were admitted (81.1%). 813 enrolled. Only about 20% of admitted students enrolled, so the school admits several students for every seat it expects to fill, which is why its acceptance rate reads higher than its selectivity feels. Rhode Island College enrolls about 5,049 undergraduates in total, 68% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 15 to 1.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS 2023 admissions and enrollment.

Admitted students at Rhode Island College post SAT scores of 870 to 1120 in the middle 50%, with an average of 990. A score above 1120 puts you in the top quarter of admits and turns the test into an asset; a score below 870 puts you in the bottom quarter, where the rest of the application has to carry more weight. Rhode Island College is test-optional: scores are considered if you submit them but not required. Send a score at or above the middle of the admitted range; otherwise apply without one and let your transcript lead.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10.

Rhode Island College signals that it values rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and standardized test scores above the rest of the file. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from Rhode Island College's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

The full sticker price at Rhode Island College (tuition, fees, housing, food, books) is about $17,454 a year. Tuition and fees are $11,300 for RI residents and $27,299 for out-of-state students, a $15,999 gap that makes residency the single biggest lever on cost. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $9,478 a year, and it ranges from $6,378 for families earning under $30,000 to $15,681 for families earning over $110,000. 42% of undergraduates receive a federal Pell Grant.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Net price is what students receiving aid paid after grants, by family income.

Median earnings for Rhode Island College students ten years after entry are $56,318 ($46,882 at the six-year mark). 48% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 73% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $20,500; 47% of undergraduates take federal loans.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Earnings cover students who received federal aid.

Among the 7 Rhode Island schools we track, Rhode Island College ranks #7 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Brown University (5%) and Providence College (51%) sit nearby, which makes Rhode Island a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list. As a public university, residency matters: in-state applicants generally see meaningfully better odds than the headline rate suggests.

If Rhode Island College is on your list, schools with a similar admit profile are worth a look: East Texas A&M University, Mississippi Valley State University, and UNC Asheville. Running the same profile against each one in the free calculator is the fastest way to see where you are a reach, a match, or a likely.

Acceptance rate, application counts, admitted test ranges, cost, and outcomes reflect publicly reported federal data (U.S. Department of Education: IPEDS 2023 and the College Scorecard) and each school's Common Data Set; figures are rounded and lag the current cycle by one to two years, so confirm deadlines and policies on the school's own site. The typical-admit GPA and SAT are CollegeCalcAI's modeled estimates. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.