2021 Best Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Australia

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Australian Students in Rhode Island ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for Australian students in Rhode Island. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality of the school, number of total international students at the school, and the percentage of international students on campus - to make this determination.

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Top Colleges in Rhode Island for Students from Australia

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Brown University
Providence, RI

$62,304 Avg Tuition & Fees

17.7% International Students

Our analysis found Brown University to be the best school for Australian students in Rhode Island in this year’s ranking. This fairly large private not-for-profit school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 1,987 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 17.7% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as China, India, and Canada come to Brown to study.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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2

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI

$56,290 Avg Tuition & Fees

34.8% International Students

A rank of #2 on our list means Rhode Island School of Design is a great place for Australian students in Rhode Island working on their bachelor’s degree. RISD is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 438 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.

Around 34.8% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at RISD are China, South Korea, and Canada.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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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.