Rhode Island’s flagship public university is seeing more applications than ever as well as an increase in graduate student enrollment, even as overall undergraduate enrollment declines.
The University of Rhode Island received a record 29,267 undergraduate applications this year, according to a Friday presentation given by Dean Libutti, the school’s vice president of enrollment management and student success, to the URI Board of Trustees.
This year’s batch of applications represents a 4.4% increase from last year’s 28,036 — which also broke records at the time…