2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
There are so many teaching programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Teaching Degree Search has developed this Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for teaching students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island
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Our analysis found Rhode Island College to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Rhode Island. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out graduate certificates to 8 students in 2020-2021.
RIC graduate students pay an average of $17,834 in tuition and fees each year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at RIC. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 99% took at least some of their classes online.
RIC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list.
Out of the 3 schools in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s value ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the # 2 spot on the list. JWU Providence is located in Providence, Rhode Island and has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 graduate certificates to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at JWU Providence are $14,706 a year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since JWU Providence does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In fact, around 46% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
JWU Providence also made our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list, coming in at #2.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Rhode Island is a great place for teaching students working on their graduate certificate who want the most bang for their educational buck. This fairly large public school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 13 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at URI are $29,774 per year. On average, graduate certificate students take out $22,817 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at URI. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 65% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
URI also made our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list, coming in at #1.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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