2022 Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 313,362 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, nursing is the 3rd most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, nursing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $67,065 and had an average of $26,282 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 1,079 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,767 and $27,180 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 63 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in nursing. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great nursing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the nursing program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island

The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island master’s degree nursing students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing in Rhode Island

#1

Rhode Island College

Providence, Rhode Island

#2 in overall quality

$16,884 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$107,758 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island College landed the #1 spot on the list. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s nursing degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.

RIC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at RIC are $16,884.

Read more about Nursing at Rhode Island College

#2

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$110,135 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island list. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 34 masters’s nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

URI also made our “Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at URI are $29,082, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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