2023 Best Value Teaching Master's Degree 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Best Value Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Rhode Island to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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 Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island
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Our 2023 rankings named Providence College the best value school in Rhode Island for teaching students working on their master’s degree. Providence is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 108 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Providence graduate students pay an average of $9,750 in tuition and fees each year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at Providence. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 75% took at least some of their classes online.
Providence did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list. RIC is located in Providence, Rhode Island and has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 110 master’s degrees to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at RIC are $17,834 a year.
One thing to take note of is that RIC does offer online graduate classes in some areas. During the 2019-2020 year, about 99% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
RIC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Rhode Island is a great place for teaching students working on their master’s degree who want the most bang for their educational buck. URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 52 master’s degrees to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at URI are $29,774 a year.
One thing to take note of is that URI does offer online graduate classes in some areas. During the 2019-2020 year, about 65% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
URI also took the #4 spot in our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island rankings.
Out of the 5 schools in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s value ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, the medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 34 diplomas to qualifed master’s degree students in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at JWU Providence are $14,706 a year.
JWU Providence does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. During the 2019-2020 year, about 46% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
JWU Providence also took the #5 spot in our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island rankings.
The excellent master’s degree programs at Brown University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Rhode Island. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out master’s degrees to 51 students in 2020-2021.
Brown graduate students pay an average of $62,083 in tuition and fees each year.
Brown does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In fact, around 59% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Brown not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 5 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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