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2023 Best Value Public Health Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$36,598 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$50,977 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Public Health School for You

Public Health is one of the most popular subjects to study in Rhode Island. With 172 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 5th out of all the majors we track in the state.

With all the healthcare programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Public Health Schools in Rhode Island to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Rhode Island to see which programs offered the best value experiences for public health students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Public Health Schools in Rhode Island

Check out the public health programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality in Public Health

$32,807 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named New England Institute of Technology the best value school in Rhode Island for public health students. Located in the large suburb of East Greenwich, New England Tech is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at New England Tech are $32,807 a year.

New England Tech not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Public Health Schools in Rhode Island list.

Read full report on Public Health at New England Institute of Technology

$15,332 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Public Health Schools in Rhode Island list. URI is a large public school located in the large suburb of Kingston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at URI are $15,332 a year.

Read full report on Public Health at University of Rhode Island

#3

Brown University

Providence, RI
$62,304 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Brown University is a great value for public health students. Located in the city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Brown are $62,304 a year. Public Health majors at Brown take out an average of $15,000 in student loans while working on their egree.

Brown also took the #1 spot in our Best Public Health Schools in Rhode Island rankings.

Read full report on Public Health at Brown University

$35,950 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson & Wales University - Providence. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Public Health Schools in Rhode Island list. JWU Providence is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Providence.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at JWU Providence are $35,950 per year.

JWU Providence did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Public Health Schools in Rhode Island list.

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Best Value Public Health Colleges in the New England Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 1,567
Connecticut 366
New Hampshire 553
Maine 171
Vermont 72

Public Health is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.

Public Health Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
General Public Health 22,778
Public Health Education and Promotion 4,563
Other Public Health 3,432
Health Services Administration 3,119
Community Health and Preventive Medicine 2,272
International Public Health/International Health 1,599
Environmental Health 1,344
Behavioral Aspects of Health 814
Health/Medical Physics 258
Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene 211
Maternal and Child Health 163
Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality 43

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Article 25 Flickr.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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