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The University of Rhode Island (URI) is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich. URI currently enrolls 14,546 undergraduate and 4,549 graduate students. The average incoming freshman for the fall of 2010 had a GPA of 3.34 and an SAT score of 1671. URI is a land grant, sea grant, and urban grant institution. US News and World Report classifies URI as a tier 1 national university, ranking it 167th overall. The University was established in 1892, although first chartered as the state's agricultural school and agricultural experiment station in 1888. The motto of URI is ""Think Big. We do.""