2022 Best Value Economics Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Economics Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Economics is the 18th most popular major in the country with 48,831 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, economics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,295 and had an average of $21,978 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 391 economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,067 and $22,333 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Economics Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in economics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great economics programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the economics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Economics Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Economics Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Economics (Income $0-$30k) in Rhode Island

#1

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$60,363 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Economics Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s economics degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

Brown not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Economics Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Brown University are $60,363.

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#2

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Economics Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k. URI is a public institution located in Kingston, Rhode Island. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

URI also took the #0 spot in our “Best Economics Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rhode Island are $29,082, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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