2023 Best Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which nursing program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking is one of many tools that Nursing Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones offered the best doctor's degree programs for nursing students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

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Top Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Salve Regina University

Newport, Rhode Island

$11,730 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Salve Regina University the best school in Rhode Island for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Salve Regina does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In fact, around 91% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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#2

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

$16,322 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the # 2 spot on the list.

Online graduate courses are available at URI, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2019-2020 year, about 65% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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#3

Rhode Island College

Providence, Rhode Island

$9,590 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Rhode Island College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best nursing schools in Rhode Island.

One thing to take note of is that RIC does offer online graduate classes in some areas. During the 2019-2020 year, about 99% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

References

• Read more about our ranking methodology.
• 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%.

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