Child Advocacy & Policy at Rhode Island College

If you plan to study child advocacy & policy, take a look at what Rhode Island College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

RIC is located in Providence, Rhode Island and has a total student population of 7,072.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Child Advocacy & Policy section at the bottom of this page.

RIC Child Advocacy & Policy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Advocacy
• Master’s Degree in Child Advocacy

RIC Child Advocacy & Policy Rankings

The child advocacy major at RIC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Child Advocacy & Policy. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Child Advocacy Student Demographics at RIC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child advocacy majors at Rhode Island College.

RIC Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 36% of child advocacy bachelor's degrees went to men and 64% went to women. The typical child advocacy bachelor's degree program is made up of only 12% men. So male students are more repesented at RIC since its program graduates 24% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% more racial-ethnic minorities in its child advocacy bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rhode Island College with a bachelor's in child advocacy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

RIC Child Advocacy & Policy Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 8% of child advocacy master's degrees went to men and 92% went to women.

In the child advocacy master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 54% of degree recipients. That is 7% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rhode Island College with a master's in child advocacy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Social Work

Careers That Child Advocacy Grads May Go Into

A degree in child advocacy can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for RI, the home state for Rhode Island College.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Child, Family, and School Social Workers	1,770	$61,440
Social and Community Service Managers	420	$96,550

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Arctichistorian01 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.