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2023 Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Schools Ranked
$19,779 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$20,880 Avg Student Debt*

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for healthcare students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Salve Regina University

Newport, Rhode Island
10 Total Awards
$11,730 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Salve Regina University the best value school in Rhode Island for healthcare students working on their graduate certificate. Salve Regina is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Newport, Rhode Island. It awarded 10 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Salve Regina are $11,730 a year. By the time they get their graduate certificate, students from this school have racked up an average of $18,943 in student loans.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Salve Regina does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 91% took at least some of their classes online.

Salve Regina also made our Best Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list, coming in at #1.

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#2

Rhode Island College

Providence, Rhode Island
13 Total Awards
$17,834 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list. This medium-sized public school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 13 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

RIC graduate students pay an average of $17,834 in tuition and fees each year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since RIC does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 99% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

RIC also took the #3 spot in our Best Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island rankings.

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#3

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island
5 Total Awards
$29,774 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list. Located in Kingston, Rhode Island, the fairly large public school handed out 5 graduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.

URI graduate students pay an average of $29,774 in tuition and fees each year. On average, graduate certificate students take out $22,817 in loans while pursuing their degree.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since URI does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 65% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

URI did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Healthcare Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages 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%.

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