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Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Rhode Island

2023 Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Rhode Island

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$30,484 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$34,369 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Liberal Arts General Studies School for You

Out of the majors we analyze each year, liberal arts general studies was ranked 2nd in Rhode Island. In fact, 1,275 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Rhode Island ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones offered the best value programs for liberal arts students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality in Liberal Arts General Studies

Our 2023 rankings named Community College of Rhode Island the best value school in Rhode Island for liberal arts general studies students. Located in the city of Warwick, CCRI is a public school with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at CCRI are $4,980 per year. While working on their degree, liberal arts majors at CCRI accumulate an average of around $9,000 in student debt.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, CCRI is ranked #4 for overall quality for liberal arts in Rhode Island.

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#2

Providence College

Providence, RI
$55,988 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Providence College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Rhode Island list. Providence is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Providence.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Providence are $55,988 per year. Liberal Arts majors at Providence take out an average of $27,225 in student loans while working on their egree.

Providence did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in Rhode Island list.

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Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Liberal Arts General Studies Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 3,382
Connecticut 2,207
New Hampshire 2,654
Maine 630
Vermont 305

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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