Rhode Island School of Design

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Everything we know

From this institution's Wikidata record. Figures that change every year show the latest value; earlier years and longer lists open with a click.

About

instance of	private university design school private not-for-profit educational institution collection arts venue
inception	22 March 1877 1877
legal form	Non-profit Corporation
industry	higher education

Location and contact

country	United States
located in the administrative territorial entity	Providence
location	Providence
street address	2 College St
postal code	02903-2784
coordinate location	41.8258, -71.4078
official website	https://www.risd.edu/ · language of work or name: English

People and numbers

count of students	2,227 · September 2020 2,576 · full-time equivalent · 1 September 2021
employees	1,201 · September 2020
admission rate	27% · 2020
admission yield rate	38% · 2020
chairperson	Rosanne Somerson · since 1 January 2014 Roger Mandle · 1993–July 2008 John Maeda · 2008–December 2013

Rankings and recognition

Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education	special focus four-year: arts, music and design schools high undergraduate postbaccalaureate: other-dominant, with arts & sciences four-year, small, highly residential four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in professions plus arts & sciences, high graduate coexistence
award received	American Craft Council Award of Distinction · 2003

Finances

endowment	$379,013,143 · 30 June 2022 Earlier figures (2) $440,699,171 · 30 June 2021 $349,011,544 · 30 June 2020
total assets	$686,288,039 · 30 June 2020

Structure and memberships

child organization or unit	Rhode Island School of Design Museum
member of	American Council on Education National Digital Stewardship Alliance

Other facts

significant event	claim for restitution of an artwork · 2010

Images and media on Wikimedia Commons (2)

image	Museum of Art, RISD, Providence RI.jpg RISD 20 Washington Place.jpg
logo image	RISD short wordmark.svg

Wikimedia and technical details (6)

Commons category	Rhode Island School of Design
topic's main category	Category:Rhode Island School of Design
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:Rhode Island School of Design alumni
on focus list of Wikimedia project	WikiProject Craft
described by source	hedendaagsesieraden.nl
social media followers	30,477 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 49659772 · 5 February 2023 12,300 · YouTube channel ID: UCH6c7HyDKSxVxzldP95q_gw · 1 February 2025 Earlier figures (2) 30,334 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 49659772 · 2 March 2022 29,602 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 49659772 · 1 January 2021

Identifiers in other databases (52)

AGORHA UUID	f2b8fa4b-4a75-441c-8c5a-ea68a357eb9b
artist-info location ID	16291
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID	17131824c
Canadiana Name Authority ID	ncf12090445
CiNii Research ID	1140563741572396544 · subject named as: Rhode Island School of Design
Crunchbase organization ID	rhode-island-school-of-design
ELMCIP ID	10078
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)	2ycChx · subject named as: 罗得岛设计学院 · last update: 22 April 2023
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)	305913
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID	topic/Rhode-Island-School-of-Design · subject named as: Rhode Island School of Design
Facebook username	risd1877
FES digital collections entity ID	425579
Freebase ID	/m/02s62q
GeoNames ID	5224304
GND ID	4027108-0
Google Knowledge Graph ID	/g/11bc5_9_kj
GRID ID	grid.447266.5
Harper's tag	rhode-island-school-of-design
Instagram username	risd1877
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID	217493
ISNI	000000012285171X
J9U entity ID	987007266912405171
KISTI ID	K000207762
Legal Entity Identifier	549300WIZD29W93LZT98
Library of Congress Authorities ID	n80067158
LittleSis organization ID	44170
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)	183146814
MusicBrainz place ID	2d779f91-16c6-486b-b7df-efcee21ccf04
NACSIS-CAT author ID	DA07163455
National Library of Poland MMS ID	9812456990105606
NDL Authority ID	001270297
NL CR AUT ID	xx0119526 · subject named as: Rhode Island School of Design
OpenAlex ID	I183146814
OpenStreetMap node ID	357266575
OSM Name Suggestion Index ID	rhodeislandschoolofdesign-373ed2
PermID	4297979950
Pinakes institution ID	1482
Quora topic ID	Rhode-Island-School-of-Design
Ringgold ID	6748
ROR ID	04mxsc976
SEVIS school ID	8054
SNARC ID	Q48932
Te Papa agent ID	35399
Threads username	risd1877
Times Higher Education World University ID	rhode-island-school-design
Union List of Artist Names ID	500279732
Vatican Library VcBA ID	494/1968
VIAF cluster ID	125487104
X (Twitter) username	risd · has characteristic: verified account or profile · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 49659772 · 29 February 2020
YouTube channel ID	UCH6c7HyDKSxVxzldP95q_gw · subject named as: RISD / Rhode Island School of Design · number of works: 385 · number of subscribers: 12,300 · number of viewers/listeners: 867,417 · 19 January 2025
‎Scilit organization ID	38291
‎Yale LUX ID	place/fcd58eb0-0544-4db8-b397-9068c22f9cdb