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2023 Most Popular Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

4 Schools Ranked
$20,880 Avg Student Debt

With all the teaching programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Most Popular Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for teaching students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.

Learn more about these popular schools below:

#1

Johnson & Wales University - Providence

Providence, Rhode Island
14 Total Awards

Our analysis found Johnson & Wales University - Providence to be the most popular school for teaching students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Rhode Island. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, the medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 14 graduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.

Around 71% of those degree recipients were women.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at JWU Providence. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 46% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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#2

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island
13 Total Awards
$16,322 Average Tuition & Fees
$22,817 Avg Student Debt

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Rhode Island helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular teaching schools in Rhode Island. This fairly large public school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 13 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

On average, graduate certificate students take out $22,817 in loans while pursuing their degree. Of those students who received their degree, 85% were women.

URI does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In fact, around 65% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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#3

Rhode Island College

Providence, Rhode Island
8 Total Awards
$9,590 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island College landed the # 3 spot on the list. 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.

Of those students who received their degree, 63% were women.

RIC 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 2019-2020 about 99% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#4

Johnson & Wales University - Online

Providence, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson & Wales University - Online. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Popular Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list.

Interested in an online degree? Then you definitely want to check out JWU Online. Every graduate student at the school took at least one class online.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 4 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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