2021 Best Affordable Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Malaysia

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Value Colleges for Malaysian Students in Rhode Island ranking - to help you make that decision.

After analyzing 2 schools in Rhode Island, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Malaysian students in Rhode Island. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall value as determined by our Best Colleges for the Money ranking and the percentage of international students on campus.

See what other factors we include in our ranking methodology.

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Top Value Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Malaysia

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Johnson & Wales University - Providence
Providence, RI

$35,950 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

5.1% International Students

Johnson & Wales University - Providence tops this year’s ranking as the best value school for Malaysian students in Rhode Island. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, the medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 1,075 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 5.1% are international. The top three countries sending students to study at JWU Providence are China, India, and Saudi Arabia. Yearly tuition and fees (out-of-state) for undergraduates at JWU Providence runs, on average, about $35,950. Graduate students pay around $14,706 a year in average tuition and fees.

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2

Brown University
Providence, RI

$62,304 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

17.7% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 1,987 students in 2020-2021.

Around 17.7% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at Brown come from such countries as China, India, and Canada. International students at Brown can expect to pay, on average, about $62,304 a year to attend the school. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $62,083 per year.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.