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Best Value Area Studies Schools in Rhode Island

2023 Best Value Area Studies Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$62,304 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$37,471 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Area Studies School for You

With 107 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, area studies is the #53 most popular major in Rhode Island.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Area Studies Schools in Rhode Island to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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 Area Studies School

#1

Brown University

Providence, RI
$62,304 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Brown University the best value school in Rhode Island for area studies students. Located in the city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Brown are $62,304 a year. The average amount in student loans that area studies majors at Brown take out is $15,275.

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

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Best Value Area Studies Colleges in the New England Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 414
Connecticut 217
New Hampshire 60
Maine 75
Vermont 45

More Area Studies Rankings in Rhode Island

Area Studies is one of 2 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Area Studies

Related Major Annual Graduates
Ethnic Studies 9,231
Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Other) 46

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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 Karl Udo Gerth.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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