by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began producing its annual Best Quality Schools rankings as a means to assist students in finding top-quality graduate colleges and universities that are invested in preparing their students for their future endeavors. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., University of Rhode Island landed the #450 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, URI took the #6 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island.
URI was ranked #246 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Rhode Island, URI came in at #2.
The total graduate student population at URI is made up of 61.0% women and 39.0% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 11.3% of the graduate students who attend URI are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. URI is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 9.6% of the graduate student population. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $14,454 | $27,906 |
| Fees | $1,868 | $1,868 |
After obtaining their master's degree from URI, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $57,948. That's on par with the nationwide average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from URI earn an average salary of $73,306 during the early years of their career. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 3% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of University of Rhode Island.
Contact details for URI are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Green Hall, 35 Campus Avenue, Kingston, RI 02881 |
| Phone: | 401-874-1000 |
| Website: | https://web.uri.edu/ |
Around 29.4% of URI graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 21.2% of grad students took all of their classes online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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