Academic and Career Paths
Explore our seven academic & career paths that lead to a rewarding career or prepare for transfer to a four-year program. Find your path to success at CCRI!
Pursue Your Passion
Choose Your Path
These carefully crafted paths encompass a wide range of disciplines, ensuring that students can pursue their passions and develop the skills and knowledge necessary for success in their chosen fields.
You are inquisitive, inspired, and creative. You are a thinker, a historian, a writer, pondering where we've come from and where we're going.
Arts and Humanities
You are organized, a leader, and a collaborator who works well with others to accomplish your goals. You know the importance of selling, promoting, and using data to achieve your objectives.
Business, Economics and Data Analytics
You have a passion for telling stories, creating media, arguing a position, and reporting on events; you are a maker! Framing an image, fashioning a story, creating for the web, branding with social media, communicating in innovative ways, and producing visuals come naturally to you.
Communication, Media and Film
You are passionate about helping others and want to share your knowledge and make a difference in the world. Fearless, you will put your life on the line to assist others. You are kind, patient, and understanding of people, from children to the elderly.
Education, Government, and Human Services
You love nature and want to protect the environment and save resources. The earth and all its creatures and biomes inspire you. You are drawn to investigate nutrients in the soil and species of ocean life, treat wild and domestic animals, and help with the effects of toxic spills.
Environment and Sustainability
You care about the well-being of others. You want to help them be healthy and free from pain, and heal them if they are ill. Helping others to be their best selves and maximize their potential invigorates you.
Health and Health Administration
You are logical, organized, and love solving problems. Tinkering and building machines and structures or developing code to run them energizes you. Math and sciences come easily to you, as do biology and chemistry.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and MathematicsWelcome to CCRI
Apply for Free Today!We're excited about your interest in attending the Community College of Rhode Island! Whether you're looking to discover your career path, start or complete your college degree, or take classes to enrich your life, we look forward to having you join our community!