Admissions & selectivity
Rhode Island College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Rhode Island College?
Rhode Island College’s reported acceptance rate is 91.8%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 91.8%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Rhode Island College admits 91.8% of applicants, a rate that sits above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). Most students who apply are offered a place.
What SAT and ACT scores do Rhode Island College students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported an average high-school GPA of 3.19 among enrolled first-year students, based on the 95.1% who reported a GPA. This is an average, not a cutoff.
For enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 870 and 1,120. These ranges describe recent enrolled submitters, not every enrolled student or a minimum for admission.
Applicants can compare their own results with this school's 870 through 1,120 SAT range as context for where recent score submitters fell.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Rhode Island College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 870
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1120
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Rhode Island College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 42.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 34.0%
- First-year retention
- 73.3%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Rhode Island College enrolls 5,049 undergraduates, and the student body draws from more than one entry point. An estimated 34.0% of students arrive as transfers or part-time students, while 42.0% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants.
The composition suggests a campus where a large share of students are building on coursework begun elsewhere, and where federal grant aid is a common part of the financing picture. Transfer applicants and Pell-eligible students should use the cost calculator to estimate their own grant-adjusted price and review the transfer information alongside their intended field.
Pell recipients at Rhode Island College complete at a higher rate than the entering class as a whole. Their six-year completion rate is 55.0%, 6.9 percentage points above the overall rate of 48.1%.
First-year retention sits at 73.3%, close to the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 48.1%, also near the peer median of 49.1%.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported an average high-school GPA of 3.19 among the 95.1% of enrolled first-year students who submitted a GPA. Enrolled students can expect retention and completion that run close to the peer medians, and a Pell cohort that finishes ahead of the entering class.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.