Ethnic Studies is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #73 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Ethnic Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 38 bachelor's degrees in ethnic studies to qualified students.
Explore societal similarities and differences as seen through cultural, biological, archaeological and linguistic lenses when you earn one of your degrees in anthropology from Southern New Hampshire University.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to ethnic studies students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of ethnic studies students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt ethnic studies students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized ethnic studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for ethnic studies students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Ethnic Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Explore societal similarities and differences as seen through cultural, biological, archaeological and linguistic lenses when you earn one of your degrees in anthropology from Southern New Hampshire University.
Brown University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies. Brown is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Providence.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the ethnic studies program make around $17,527 in the first couple years of their career.
University of Rhode Island is a wonderful decision for students interested in a bachelor's degree in ethnic studies. URI is a large public university located in the large suburb of Kingston.
Those ethnic studies students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Rhode Island make $5,327 more than the typical ethnic studies student.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
