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2023 Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$17,364 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,148 Avg Salary

Architecture & Related Services is the #20 most popular major in Rhode Island with 282 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Architecture/Urban Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Rhode Island to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for architecture and related services 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.

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for architecture and related services majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Architecture/Urban Planning

Our analysis found University of Rhode Island to be the best value school for architecture and related services students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Rhode Island. URI is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Kingston.

URI graduate students pay an average of $16,322 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

URI not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list.

Full Architecture & Related Services at University of Rhode Island Report

Out of the 2 schools in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Roger Williams University landed the # 2 spot on the list. RWU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Bristol.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at RWU are $18,406 per year.

RWU not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Architecture/Urban Planning Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list.

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State Degrees Awarded
New Hampshire 47
Maine 14
Massachusetts 1,036
Connecticut 126
Vermont 41

Major Annual Graduates
Architectural Sciences & Technology 6,781
General Architecture 4,982
Urban & Regional Planning 2,419
Landscape Architecture 905
Environmental Design 741
Interior Architecture 728
Real Estate Development 420
Architecture (Other) 202
Architectural History 147

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 254,454
Engineering 198,468
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 177,778
Engineering Technologies 85,188
Mathematics & Statistics 52,396

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Lorenzo Cafaro.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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