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Providence College
Providence College, founded in 1917 by the Dominican order, is one of the leading Catholic colleges in New England, and its men's basketball program, competing in the Big East conference, has given the college a national athletic profile disproportionate to its relatively modest overall enrollment. The college's Dominican Friars remain directly involved in campus life and instruction, and Providence's core curriculum, including a distinctive two-year Development of Western Civilization sequence required of all students, reflects the school's continued commitment to a traditional, faith-integrated liberal arts education. Providence's business and health sciences programs have built solid regional reputations, and the college's urban Providence location gives students access to the city's business and healthcare institutions while maintaining a distinct, self-contained campus setting. The college's combination of its Dominican Catholic mission, its distinctive required Western civilization curriculum, and its competitive Big East basketball program has made Providence College one of the more institutionally distinctive Catholic colleges in the Northeast.
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Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design, founded in 1877, is consistently ranked among the very best art and design schools in the world, and its cross-registration agreement with neighboring Brown University lets RISD students take courses at Brown while Brown students can similarly access RISD's specialized art and design instruction. The school's industrial design, illustration, and architecture programs have produced a disproportionate number of prominent working designers and artists relative to RISD's small size, and its alumni have gone on to significant careers across fashion, product design, animation, and fine art. RISD's rigorous foundational first-year curriculum, requiring all students regardless of eventual major to complete intensive coursework in drawing, design, and three-dimensional studies, reflects the school's institutional emphasis on building strong technical fundamentals before specialization. The school's combination of world-class art and design instruction and its direct cross-registration relationship with Brown University has made RISD one of the most academically rigorous and selective art schools in the country, offering a genuinely unusual hybrid of conservatory-level art training and access to a major research university.
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