Out of the 1 schools in the Most Well Attended Medical Science Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. Brown is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 35 ’s medical science degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.