2021 Best Affordable Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Russia

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Value Colleges for Russian Students in Rhode Island ranking is part of that endeavor.

Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for Russian 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.

See what other factors we include in our ranking methodology.

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Top Value Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Russia

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

University of Rhode Island tops this year’s ranking as the best value school for Russian students in Rhode Island. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large public school located in Kingston, Rhode Island that handed out 3,855 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 2.6% of the total student population at the school is 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. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $29,774 per year.

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Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI

$56,290 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

34.8% International Students

Out of the 3 schools in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island School of Design landed the #2 spot on the list. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 438 students in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 34.8% are international. Students from as far away as China, South Korea, and Canada come to RISD to study. International students at RISD can expect to pay, on average, about $56,290 a year to attend the school. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $56,290 per year.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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Brown University
Providence, RI

$62,304 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

17.7% International Students

Out of the 3 schools in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #3 spot on the list. Brown University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 1,987 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 17.7% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at Brown are China, India, and Canada. Yearly tuition and fees (out-of-state) for undergraduates at Brown runs, on average, about $62,304. The average tuition and fees for graduate programs is $62,083 per year.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 3 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.