by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in Rhode Island” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Ethnic Studies is the 99th most popular major in the country with 9,231 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, ethnic studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,818 and had an average of $22,901 in loans still to pay off.
Across Rhode Island, there were 45 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,215 and $23,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 42 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,833 and $24,930 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in Rhode Island” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ethnic studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in ethnic studies.
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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 for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in Rhode Island” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island bachelor’s degree ethnic studies students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies 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 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s ethnic studies students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Providence College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in Rhode Island list. Providence is a private not-for-profit institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in Rhode Island. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large school located in Kingston, Rhode Island that handed out 19 bachelors’s ethnic studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #4 spot on the list. Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s ethnic studies degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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