2023 Most Focused Colleges for Teaching English or French in Rhode Island

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on English or French Major in Rhode Island” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teaching English or French is the 140th most popular major in the country with 5,791 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, teaching English or French graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $46,917 and had an average of $20,920 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 45 teaching English or French graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on English or French Major in Rhode Island” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in teaching English or French. That schools that top this list have a program in teaching English or French in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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 “Schools Highly Focused on English or French Major in Rhode Island” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools Highly Focused on English or French Major in Rhode Island

The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island english or french students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Teaching English or French in Rhode Island

1

Rhode Island College
Providence, Rhode Island

#8 overall quality in Rhode Island

$42,201 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,418 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on English or French Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this medium-sized public school awarded 29 degrees to qualified ’s English or French students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Teaching English or French at Rhode Island College

2

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

#5 overall quality in Rhode Island

$44,926 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,193 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on English or French Major in Rhode Island. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 16 ’s English or French degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Teaching English or French at URI

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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