2021 Best Affordable Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Brazil

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Value Colleges for Brazilian Students in Rhode Island ranking - to help you make that decision.

After analyzing 2 schools in Rhode Island, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Brazilian students in Rhode Island. Our ranking methodology focuses on a number of different objective factors - such as the overall value of the school, number of total international students at the school, and the percentage of international students on campus - to make this determination.

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Top Value Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Brazil

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI

$33,354 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

2.6% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named University of Rhode Island the best affordable school for Brazilian students in Rhode Island working on their bachelor’s degree. This fairly large public school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 3,855 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 2.6% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at URI are China, India, and South Korea. International students at URI can expect to pay, on average, about $33,354 a year to attend the school. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $29,774 per year.

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2

Brown University
Providence, RI

$62,304 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

17.7% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Brown is a private not-for-profit institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1,987 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 17.7% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at Brown come from such countries as China, India, and Canada. Out-of-state tuition and fees for undergraduates at Brown is about $62,304 a year, on average. Graduate students pay around $62,083 a year in average tuition and fees.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.