2023 Best Nursing Master'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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Nursing Degree Search has created the Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones offered the best master'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 Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

$16,322 Average Tuition & Fees

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

One thing to take note of is that URI does offer online graduate classes in some areas. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 65% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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#2

Salve Regina University

Newport, Rhode Island

$11,730 Average Tuition & Fees

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

Salve Regina does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 91% took at least some of their classes online.

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#3

Rhode Island College

Providence, Rhode Island

$9,590 Average Tuition & Fees

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

You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at RIC. In 2019-2020 about 99% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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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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