Metropolitan Tuition Policy (MTP)

Rhode Island College students whose permanent place of residence is a community within a fifty-mile radius of Providence are eligible for instate tuition rates plus 50 percent. The Metropolitan Tuition Policy includes both full-time and part-time students, undergraduate and graduate students, and degree and non-degree students. Connecticut and Massachusetts communities within the fifty-mile radius are listed online at www.ric.edu/bursar/tuition_metro.php.

Forms for verification of residence for this purpose are available in the Records Office and in the RIC Course Bulletin and must be submitted for approval prior to the close of registration.