2023 Most Popular Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island
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To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Most Popular Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking. Our analysis looked at 8 schools in Rhode Island to see which doctor's degree programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.
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Most Popular Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island
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Our analysis found Brown University to be the most popular school for students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Rhode Island. This fairly large private not-for-profit school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 293 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 47% were women.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Brown does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 59% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Rhode Island helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular schools in Rhode Island. This fairly large public school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 234 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 64% were women.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since URI does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 65% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Roger Williams University School of Law is a great place for students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in Bristol, Rhode Island, the very small private not-for-profit school handed out 150 doctor’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 58% were women.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Roger Williams University School of Law does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 98% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
You’ll be in good company if you attend Johnson & Wales University - Providence. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list. JWU Providence is located in Providence, Rhode Island and has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.
Around 80% of those degree recipients were women.
Online graduate courses are available at JWU Providence, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2019-2020 year, about 46% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
You’ll be in good company if you attend Salve Regina University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list. Salve Regina is a private not-for-profit institution located in Newport, Rhode Island. The school has a small population, and it awarded 13 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 69% of those degree recipients were women.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Salve Regina does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 91% took at least some of their classes online.
Rhode Island College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctor’s degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
Around 80% of those degree recipients were women.
Online graduate courses are available at RIC, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 99% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
New England Institute of Technology landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular doctor’s degree programs. New England Institute of Technology is a small private not-for-profit school located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island that handed out 4 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 100% were women.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at New England Tech. During the 2019-2020 year, about 52% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Johnson & Wales University - Online came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking.
JWU Online is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 8 schools only.
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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