2021 Best Affordable Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Ghana

When it comes to choosing a college, international students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Colleges for Ghanaian Students in Rhode Island ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for Ghanaian students in Rhode Island. Our ranking is based on several objective factors, including the school's overall value and the total number of international students at the school. We steer clear of subjective measures since they don't give a clear picture when determining how one school compares to another.

Learn more about our ranking methodology.

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Top Value Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Ghana

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 analysis found University of Rhode Island to be the best affordable school for Ghanaian students in Rhode Island in this year’s ranking. URI is a fairly large public school situated in Kingston, Rhode Island. It awarded 3,855 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 2.6% of the total student population at the school is international. Students from as far away as China, India, and South Korea come to URI to study. Yearly tuition and fees (out-of-state) for undergraduates at URI runs, on average, about $33,354. Graduate students pay around $29,774 a year in average tuition and fees.

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2

Bryant University
Smithfield, RI

$47,782 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

5.6% International Students

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bryant University. It ranked #2 on our 2021 Best Colleges for Ghanaian students in Rhode Island list. Bryant is located in Smithfield, Rhode Island and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 884 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.

International students make up 5.6% of the total student body at the school. The top three countries sending students to study at Bryant are China, India, and Canada. Yearly tuition and fees (out-of-state) for undergraduates at Bryant runs, on average, about $47,782. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $47,720 per year.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, 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.