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Best Value Engineering Schools in Rhode Island

2023 Best Value Engineering Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$38,330 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,187 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, engineering students earned 667 degrees and certificates from a Rhode Island school, making the subject the 10th in the state.

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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Engineering Schools in Rhode Island ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which programs offered the best value experiences for engineering 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.

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality in Engineering

$15,332 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Rhode Island the best value school in Rhode Island for engineering students. URI is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Kingston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at URI are $15,332 a year. After completing their degree, engineering graduates from URI carry an average student debtload of $25,778. Assuming that a graduate chooses a 10-year repayment plan, the average monthly loan payment is $317.

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#2

Brown University

Providence, RI
$62,304 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Schools in Rhode Island list. Located in the midsize city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Brown undergraduate students pay an average of $62,304 in in-state tuition and fees each year. After completing their degree, engineering graduates from Brown carry an average student debtload of $14,875.

Brown not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Engineering Schools in Rhode Island list.

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$37,355 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Roger Williams University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Schools in Rhode Island list. RWU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Bristol.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at RWU are $37,355 a year. On average, engineering graduates from RWU take out $27,000 in student loans while working on their degree.

RWU also took the #5 spot in our Best Engineering Schools in Rhode Island rankings.

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Best Value Engineering Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Engineering Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Hampshire 649
Maine 404
Massachusetts 9,717
Connecticut 2,153
Vermont 346

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Engineering Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917
Biomedical Engineering 12,811
General Engineering 11,796
Industrial Engineering 9,072
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering 8,001
Systems Engineering 3,904
Materials Engineering 3,415
Other Engineering 2,760
Environmental Engineering 2,759
Operations Research 1,698
Agricultural Engineering 1,472
Engineering Science 1,454
Electrical and Computer Engineering. 1,378
Petroleum Engineering 1,256
Robotics Engineering 1,243
Architectural Engineering 1,012
Engineering Physics 994
Manufacturing Engineering 947
Construction Engineering 878
Nuclear Engineering 864
Marine Engineering 445
Biological Engineering 410
Polymer & Plastics Engineering 360
Geoscience Engineering 325
Mining Engineering 314
Textile Engineering 310
Ocean Engineering 285
Engineering Mechanics 272
Metallurgical Engineering 179
Energy Systems Engineering 138
Biochemical Engineering 109
Ceramic Engineering 94
Surveying Engineering 73
Electromechanical Engineering 45
Forest Engineering 41
Paper Science & Engineering 27
Engineering Chemistry 13

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 254,454
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 177,778
Engineering Technologies 85,188
Mathematics & Statistics 52,396
Physical Sciences 50,306

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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