Rhode Island School of Design
- Health & Safety

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Public safety does a really good job of making the campus feel safe. You can call them at any time and they will get to you immediately. This should be common sense, but be sure you call pub safe, not 911. The providence police have a ton of serious crime on their hands and they won't be able to get to you right away if you're sleep deprived and accidentally slice your finger off with an exacto. It's easy to forget that Providence is a regular city with a fair share of crime, so they send out regular safety advisory emails that alert students of different crimes committed around campus. If you travel in groups of at least three or four at night and stay out of bad areas, you will be totally fine.

We also have RISD rides, which is a shuttle service that takes students to and from dorms and studios. They're technically only supposed to go to and from RISD buildings and only drive you to direct locations until midnight (after that the vans go between bus stops around campus) but the drivers are awesome and genuinely care about student safety so they'll usually make exceptions.

RISD is extremely (and pretty excessively) strict about drug and alcohol use in campus housing, but Res Life is responsible for that bullsh*t. In general, public safety officers just want to make sure you're ok if you drink too much and need to go to the hospital. If you're nice to them, they'll be nice to you. Res Life will bust your ass every time and they're NEVER nice about it. I can only speak for freshman housing in the quad though, Reslife is supposedly more lenient in upperclassmen housing.

Health and Saftey

School Health serviced are pretty basic. They could really try to do walk ins since the school gives us such busy schedules.

Security is not bad even though it is pretty spread out. The school has a great "RISD RIDES" shuttle service from 7pm to 330am. Pretty helpful and makes being in studio late helpful

Very Safe

Rhode Island School of Design's campus security is run by Public Safety. They have emergency call stations spread throughout campus and also monitor the campus personally. I have never felt unsafe on campus.