Rhode Island College is one of the leading educational institutes in the United States. Located in Providence, R.I., the college has a state-of-the-art building built on more than 180-acres of land. Its departments include the faculty of arts and sciences, Feinstein school of education and human development, school of management and technology, school of social work, and office of continuing education and summer sessions. RIC is approved by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Council on Social Work Education, National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and National Association of Schools of Music. The college enrolls more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and offers bachelors, masters, specialist and doctoral degrees and associate and certificate programs. Its courses include anthropology, sociology, liberal and fine arts, biology, chemistry and physics, mass communications, English, world history, mathematics and computer science, foreign languages and literatures, music and theatre, and nursing.