2025 Best Elementary Education Schools in Rhode Island
3Colleges in Rhode Island
139Elementary Teaching Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in elementary education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #17 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of elementary education. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 139 degrees in elementary education annually.
Your choice of elementary education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Elementary Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The elementary teaching school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Elementary Education Schools in Rhode Island.
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Best Schools for Elementary Education in Rhode Island
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the elementary teaching degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Rhode Island is a great option for students pursuing a degree in elementary education. URI is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Kingston. A Best Colleges rank of #241 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means URI is a great university overall.
There were about 72 elementary education students who graduated with this degree at URI in the most recent data year.
Salve Regina University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in elementary education. Salve Regina is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Newport. This university ranks 440th out of 2,152 colleges for overall quality nationwide.
There were approximately 22 elementary education students who graduated with this degree at Salve Regina in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in elementary education needs to check out Roger Williams University. RWU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Bristol. This university ranks 7th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were about 17 elementary education students who graduated with this degree at RWU in the most recent year we have data available.
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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Your choice of elementary education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Elementary Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
