2022 Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 29,936 people earned their degree in general education, making the major the 28th most popular in the United States.

Across Rhode Island, there were 58 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general education programs, but they also cost less that 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 education program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island bachelor’s degree general education students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Rhode Island (With Aid)

#1

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,392 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general education students in 2019-2020.

Brown also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Brown is $29,392 for Rhode Island Bachelor’s Degree General Education students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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.

Read more about General Education at Brown University

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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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