Journalism is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #69 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
There was only one school in Rhode Island to review for the 2025 Best Journalism Schools in Rhode Island ranking.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Journalism Schools in Rhode Island ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the journalism degree levels they offer.
University of Rhode Island is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in journalism. Located in the large suburb of Kingston, URI is a public university with a large student population.
Soon after graduating, journalism degree recipients typically earn an average of $37,875 in their early careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
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