Extension School
Your gateway to flexible, affordable, and career-driven education.
An ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ Education that meets you where you are.
Welcome to the ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ Extension School—your gateway to flexible, affordable, and career-driven education. Join a supportive community dedicated to helping you succeed with courses that align with today’s most in-demand skills and industries. Whether you're a working professional, recent high school graduate, or returning student, our diverse programs are tailored to fit your life and future career needs.
How We Meet Community Needs
ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ EXT is about meeting the needs of the community. We are a place for all types of learners and partner for community organizations and industry leaders who are implementing solutions that benefit the larger community.
How We Serve All Learners
ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ EXT is not just geared toward one type of student. We are organized to serve all learners, whether they are teenagers trying to get ahead, adult students looking to complete degrees, or individuals looking for job training or professional development for themselves or their employees.
How We Remove Barriers
ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ EXT removes barriers and provides opportunities. We work with students to ensure they or their families aren't blocked from an education for reasons of preparation, affordability, or time constraints.
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Defy your doubts. There is no better time than now to begin working on a degree path, or finish a path you started, or take a course to advance in your career. Our variety of course offerings and affordable tuition will get you where you want to go.
Learn More and Apply NowYou Did The Work, Now Earn The Degree
Use what you already know through relevant learning, work, or life experience and apply it towards a degree. You can bring in as many as 90 credits towards a bachelors degree. Learn how you can maximize your life experience for a degree. We recognize a number of formal and non-formal experiences and activities as prior learning.
A Place for Our Active or Retired Military
ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ EXT is where military members deployed overseas, serving here at home, or those who have already served can get started on their next steps. We collaborate and maintain partnerships with education officers throughout the military branches so we can best serve our military families and offer services and resources like military discount and a Student Veteran Organization (SVO).
A Place for Partnerships
We are a thought partner and leader, working to solve problems, innovate, disrupt, and build new systems that create a positive and measurable impact for families, communities, and the State. Whether it’s designing custom courses or opening up our courses and trainings to your employees, we are prepared to provide the support and know-how that is required to meet your specific goals and needs.
Degrees & Certificates
Develop stackable credentials, certificates, degrees, and micro-credentials in collaboration with industry-leading employers and delivered by industry-leading subject matter experts, filling specific needs with our developed curriculum when external certifications do not exist.
Trades
Prepare students for in-demand jobs that do not need a traditional credentialed pathway. Students develop specialized skills that address the industry's current and future needs.
Early College Students
Provide high school students with college-level courses, earn college credit, and accelerate time to degree and entrance into the workforce.
Coursework
Allow students to stay on track for timely graduation, retake courses in which they struggled, or get ahead to graduate early.
Professional Certifications & Licensures
Provide preparation and training to earn external credentials and licensures demonstrating the skill or knowledge needed to perform a specific job/ function.
Recent ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´
ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ Receives $150,000 Grant from Hayden Foundation to Continue Trades Education Scholarship Program
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ and the Hayden Foundation are continuing to address the trade labor shortage facing Rhode Island and the region through a scholarship program for students
ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ Introduces Online Tool That Helps Students Design Powerful Combinations of Academic and Real-World Learning
The Rhode Island university recommits to empowering students to create a unique academic path and a career-ready skillset.
ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ Climbs to No. 35 in U.S. ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ & World Report Best Regional University Rankings
ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ also makes lists for Best Value, Best School for Veterans, and Social Mobility, with national recognition for standout programs in business, computer science, engineering, and psychology.
ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ Awarded Grant to Launch Multi-Partner Expansion of Prison Education Reentry Program
New England Prison Education Collaborative funding enables ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ Extension School to expand credit-bearing, reentry programming for justice-involved individuals.
ÍúÍú×ÊÔ´ Extension School Offers Doula Education Training
Newly launched program provides a flexible, 20-hour course for students to quickly gain their certification.
