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2023 Most Popular Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

2 Schools Ranked
$24,413 Avg Student Debt

It's not easy to decide which nursing program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Nursing Degree Search has developed this Most Popular Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for nursing students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.

Learn more about these popular schools below:

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island
158 Total Awards
$16,858 Average Tuition & Fees
$20,591 Avg Student Debt

Our analysis found University of Rhode Island to be the most popular school for nursing students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Rhode Island. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large public school located in Kingston, Rhode Island that handed out 158 graduate certificates in 2021-2022.

On average, graduate certificate students take out $20,591 in loans while pursuing their degree. Around 65% of those degree recipients were women.

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. In fact, around 29% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2020-2021.

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#2

Rhode Island College

Providence, Rhode Island
54 Total Awards
$9,788 Average Tuition & Fees
$32,192 Avg Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list. RIC is a public institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 54 graduate certificates in 2021-2022.

Graduate Certificate recipients from RIC accumulate an average of $32,192 in student debt by the time they complete their degree. Around 78% of those degree recipients were women.

Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at RIC. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 39% of graduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages 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.

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