2021 Best Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Malaysia

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we're committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our Best Colleges for Malaysian Students in Rhode Island ranking.

After analyzing 2 schools in Rhode Island, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Malaysian students in Rhode Island. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the percentage of international students on campus.

See what other factors we include in our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Malaysia

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Brown University
Providence, RI

$62,304 Avg Tuition & Fees

17.7% International Students

Our analysis found Brown University to be the best school for Malaysian students in Rhode Island in this year’s ranking. Brown University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 1,987 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 17.7% are international. Students from as far away as China, India, and Canada come to Brown to study.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Brown University Report

2

Johnson & Wales University - Providence
Providence, RI

$35,950 Avg Tuition & Fees

5.1% International Students

A rank of #2 on our list means Johnson & Wales University - Providence is a great place for Malaysian students in Rhode Island working on their bachelor’s degree. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 1,075 students in 2020-2021.

Around 5.1% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at JWU Providence come from such countries as China, India, and Saudi Arabia.

Full Johnson & Wales University - Providence Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 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.