2021 Best Affordable Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Iran

International students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its Best Value Colleges for Iranian Students in Rhode Island ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

After analyzing 2 schools in Rhode Island, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Iranian students in Rhode Island. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall value as determined by our Best Colleges for the Money ranking and the percentage of international students on campus.

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Top Value Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Iran

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 Iranian students in Rhode Island in this year’s ranking. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 3,855 students in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 2.6% are international. Students studying at URI come from such countries as China, India, and South Korea. International students at URI can expect to pay, on average, about $33,354 a year to attend the school. Graduate students pay around $29,774 a year in average tuition and fees.

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2

Brown University
Providence, RI

$62,304 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

17.7% International Students

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #2 on our 2021 Best Colleges for Iranian students in Rhode Island list. 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 from as far away as China, India, and Canada come to Brown to study. International students at Brown can expect to pay, on average, about $62,304 a year to attend the school. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $62,083 per year.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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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.