2022 Best Value Education Schools for an Associate 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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 310,601 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, education is the 4th most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,887 and had an average of $30,244 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 888 education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,453 and $26,296 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 34 education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Education Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island

The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island associate degree education students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Education in Rhode Island

#1

Community College of Rhode Island

Warwick, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$5,878 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Community College of Rhode Island. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island list. Warwick, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s education degrees to 34 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CCRI, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Education Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for CCRI is $5,878 for Rhode Island Associate Degree Education students.

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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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