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2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

3 Schools Ranked
$19,779 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Nursing Degree Search has created its Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for nursing students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Salve Regina University

Newport, Rhode Island
8 Total Awards
$11,730 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Salve Regina University to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Rhode Island. Salve Regina is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Newport, Rhode Island. It awarded 8 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Salve Regina graduate students pay an average of $11,730 in tuition and fees each year.

Salve Regina does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In 2019-2020 about 91% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Salve Regina also made our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list, coming in at #1.

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#2

Rhode Island College

Providence, Rhode Island
3 Total Awards
$17,834 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctor’s degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at RIC are $17,834 per year.

You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at RIC. In fact, around 99% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

RIC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list.

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#3

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island
3 Total Awards
$29,774 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctor’s degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at URI are $29,774 per year.

URI does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 65% took at least some of their classes online.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, URI is ranked #2 for overall quality in Rhode Island.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 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.

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