2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Rhode Island

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value General Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 55,749 people earned their degree in general business/commerce, making the major the 13th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, general business/commerce graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,821 and had an average of $25,596 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 120 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,300 and $8,900 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general business/commerce programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general business/commerce program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value General Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value General Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Rhode Island

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$20,607 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value General Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s general business degrees in 2019-2020.

URI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Business/Commerce Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list. It costs about $20,607 for rhode island bachelor’s degree general business students per year to attend URI.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on General Business/Commerce at University of Rhode Island

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Notes and References

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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