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2022 Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k

5 Ranked Colleges
382 Degrees Awarded
$22,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor's in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Communication & Media Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 9th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 68,079 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,728 and had an average of $24,931 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 403 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,080 and $24,875 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 382 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in communication and media studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality communication and media studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $30-$48k) in Rhode Island

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large school located in Kingston, Rhode Island that handed out 206 bachelors’s communications degrees in 2019-2020.

URI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list. The estimated yearly cost for URI is $15,509 for Rhode Island Bachelor’s Degree Communications students whose families make $30-$48k.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Rhode Island Communication & Media Studies Report

#2

Rhode Island College

Providence, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rhode Island College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k. Rhode Island College is a medium-sized school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 25 bachelors’s communications degrees in 2019-2020.

RIC also took the #4 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. It costs about $8,961 for Rhode Island Bachelor’s Degree Communications students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Rhode Island College.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Rhode Island College

#3

Bryant University

Smithfield, Rhode Island

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Bryant University landed the #3 spot on the list. Bryant University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Smithfield, Rhode Island. It awarded 39 bachelors’s communications degrees in 2019-2020.

Bryant also made our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Bryant is $33,173 for rhode island bachelor’s degree communications students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Bryant University

#4

Roger Williams University

Bristol, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roger Williams University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k. Bristol, Rhode Island is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s communications degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

RWU also made our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Roger Williams University is $28,784 for Rhode Island Bachelor’s Degree Communications students whose families make $30-$48k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at RWU

#5

Johnson & Wales University - Providence

Providence, Rhode Island

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the #5 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s communications degrees in 2019-2020.

JWU Providence not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list. The yearly cost to attend JWU Providence is $24,024 for Rhode Island Bachelor’s Degree Communications students whose families make $30-$48k.

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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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