by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the #1146 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, JWU Providence took the #8 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, JWU Providence came in at #676.
JWU Providence also ranked #5 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Rhode Island.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 67.6% of the total graduate students at JWU Providence are women and 32.4% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 22.1% of the graduate student population at JWU Providence. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 16.4% of graduate students hail from another country. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $14,706 | $14,706 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from JWU Providence enter careers with an average starting salary of $56,226. That's about 4% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from JWU Providence, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $90,408. That's about 20% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Johnson & Wales University - Providence.
Contact details for JWU Providence are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 8 Abbott Park Place, Providence, RI 02903-3703 |
| Phone: | 401-598-1000 |
| Website: | https://www.jwu.edu/campuses/providence/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/johnsonandwales |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/JWUNorthMiami |
Around 20.9% of JWU Providence graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 9.2% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Educational Administration | 15 |
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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