2023 Best Value Healthcare Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Today's healthcare students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Healthcare Degree Search has developed this Best Value Healthcare Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Healthcare Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Community College of Rhode Island

Warwick, Rhode Island

344 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Rhode Island

$13,260 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Community College of Rhode Island the best value school in Rhode Island for healthcare students working on their associate degree. This fairly large public school is located in Warwick, Rhode Island, and it awarded 344 associate degrees in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at CCRI are $13,260 a year. By the time they get their associate degree, students from this school have racked up an average of $15,624 in student loans.

One thing to take note of is that CCRI does offer online classes in some areas. During the 2019-2020 year, about 95% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.

CCRI also took the #1 spot in our Best Healthcare Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island rankings.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 1 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.

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