by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Roger Williams University was awarded 8 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is legal support services.
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RWU landed the #564 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when RWU held the #580 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 9 colleges in Rhode Island, RWU is ranked at #7.
With an acceptance rate of 91%, RWU has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
About 24% of students accepted to RWU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 570 and 640. Math scores were between 550 and 630.
With a student to faculty ratio of 14 to 1, Roger Williams University is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Roger Williams University is 41%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 77% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Roger Williams University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At RWU the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 62%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Roger Williams University.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,346 undergraduates at RWU with 3,828 being full-time and 518 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $37,805 | $36,278 | $39,015 | $38,295 | $40,738 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of RWU, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At RWU, approximately 71% of students took out student loans averaging $12,439 a year. That adds up to $49,756 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for RWU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One Old Ferry Road, Bristol, RI 02809-2921 |
| Phone: | 401-253-1040 |
| Website: | https://www.rwu.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 113 | $45,356 |
| Legal Support Services | 76 | $51,445 |
| Business Administration & Management | 71 | $46,991 |
| Marketing | 64 | $44,506 |
| General Architecture | 63 | $36,750 |
| General Psychology | 62 | $32,289 |
| Architectural Sciences & Technology | 56 | NA |
| Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology | 41 | $29,074 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 41 | $60,042 |
| Construction Management | 39 | $75,334 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 639 students took at least one online class at Roger Williams University. This is a decrease from the 1,940 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 639 | 222 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,940 | 379 |
| 2020-2021 | 4,202 | 150 |
| 2018-2019 | 567 | 312 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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