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2023 Best Value Information Technology Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$4,980 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$35,972 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Information Technology Associate Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, information technology students earned 87 degrees and certificates from a Rhode Island school, making the subject the 4th in the state.

Today's computer science 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 that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Computer Science Degree Search has created its Best Value Information Technology Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Information Technology Associate Degree Colleges.

Best Information Technology Associate Degree School

Our analysis found Community College of Rhode Island to be the best value school for information technology students who want to pursue a associate degree in Rhode Island. CCRI is a large public school located in the city of Warwick.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at CCRI are $4,980 a year.

CCRI did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Information Technology Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island list.

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Best Value Information Technology Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Information Technology Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 397
Connecticut 74
Vermont 210
New Hampshire 50
Maine 124

Information Technology is one of 10 different types of computer science programs to choose from.

IT Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Computer & IS Security 22,829
Network & System Administration/Administrator 5,501
Information Technology Management 4,009
Computer Support Specialist 3,176
System, Networking, & LAN/WAN Management/Manager 2,077
Information Technology Project Management 2,076
Web/Multimedia Management & Webmaster 887

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer Information Systems 88,434
Computer Science 59,565
Information Science 18,325
Computer Systems Networking 14,700
Computer Software & Applications 14,336

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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 Craig Dennis.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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