2024 Best General Education Schools in Rhode Island
3Colleges in Rhode Island
64Education Degrees Awarded
$35,850Avg Early-Career Salary
General Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #41 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Education Schools in Rhode Island ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 64 degrees in general education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Education rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 General Education Schools in Rhode Island list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Education in Rhode Island
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the education degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat Brown University if you wish to pursue a degree in general education. Brown is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Providence. A Best Colleges rank of #21 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Brown is a great university overall.
There were approximately 30 general education students who graduated with this degree at Brown in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in general education needs to look into University of Rhode Island. URI is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Kingston. This university ranks 4th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were approximately 32 general education students who graduated with this degree at URI in the most recent year we have data available. Those general education students who get their degree from University of Rhode Island make $9,736 more than the standard education graduate.
Rhode Island College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general education. RIC is a medium-sized public college located in the suburb of Providence. This college ranks 9th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were approximately 2 general education students who graduated with this degree at RIC in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Education rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
