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2023 Best Value Nursing Master'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 Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for nursing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Rhode Island College

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

Our analysis found Rhode Island College to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Rhode Island. RIC is located in Providence, Rhode Island and has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 33 master’s degrees to qualified students.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at RIC are $17,834 a year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since RIC does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 99% took at least some of their classes online.

RIC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list.

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#2

Salve Regina University

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

The excellent master’s degree programs at Salve Regina University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value nursing schools in Rhode Island. Salve Regina is located in Newport, Rhode Island and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 master’s degrees to qualified students.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Salve Regina are $11,730 per year.

Online graduate courses are available at Salve Regina, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 91% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Salve Regina also took the #2 spot in our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island rankings.

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#3

University of Rhode Island

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

Out of the 3 schools in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s value ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in Kingston, Rhode Island, the fairly large public school awarded 22 diplomas to qualifed master’s degree students in 2020-2021.

URI graduate students pay an average of $29,774 in tuition and fees each year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since URI does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. 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.

URI also made our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list, coming in at #1.

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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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