2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication Sciences in Rhode Island

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 “Most Well Attended Communication Sciences Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Communication Sciences is the 47th most popular major in the country with 22,298 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, communication sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,173 and had an average of $22,255 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 95 communication sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,367 and $23,255 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 73 communication sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,833 and $24,930 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Communication Sciences Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication sciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful communication sciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Communication Sciences Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Communication Sciences Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication Sciences in Rhode Island

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University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

#5 overall quality in Rhode Island

$19,717 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,255 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Communication Sciences Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s communication sciences degrees to 65 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Rhode Island Communication Sciences Report

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Rhode Island College
Providence, Rhode Island

#8 overall quality in Rhode Island

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Communication Sciences Major in Rhode Island for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this medium-sized public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s communication sciences students in 2020-2021.

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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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