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Considering a degree in Information Science/Studies?
These rankings show the most affordable colleges for Information Science/Studies majors who live in Rhode Island.
Rankings are calculated by estimating the net price at every college offering Information Science/Studies degrees for a "typical" middle class family living in the state of Rhode Island.
Note: Net price is the actual cost of college paid after factoring in financial aid.The net prices displayed in these rankings are College Raptor's estimates.
“Typical” middle class family values used in the Net Price estimates on this page are:
| Rank | Institution | Typical Net Price | Sticker Price | % Savings | Undergraduates | Est. Median SAT | Acceptance Rate | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Michigan-Flint | 5000 | 44000 | 0.8868 | 5,534 | 1079 | 0.6734 | |
| 2 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 5600 | 50600 | 0.8888 | 35,358 | 1448 | 0.1642 | |
| 3 | Savannah State University | 6800 | 28000 | 0.756 | 2,966 | 950 | 1 | |
| 4 | Northern Kentucky University | 7500 | 26600 | 0.7193 | 10,136 | 1110 | 0.9666 | |
| 5 | College of Staten Island CUNY | 7700 | 36100 | 0.7877 | 10,368 | 1064 | 0.999 | |
| 6 | Northwestern University | 7800 | 93000 | 0.9163 | 9,060 | 1533 | 0.0769 | |
| 7 | Columbia University in the City of New York | 8900 | 96500 | 0.9082 | 9,164 | 1535 | 0.0386 | |
| 7 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 8900 | 38900 | 0.7716 | 38,572 | 1455 | 0.3659 | |
| 9 | Rhode Island College | 9000 | 62600 | 0.8561 | 5,695 | 995 | 0.8557 | |
| 10 | Portland State University | 9400 | 73900 | 0.8726 | 14,932 | 1174 | 0.8586 | |
| 11 | Southeastern Oklahoma State University | 10300 | 42400 | 0.7566 | 3,224 | 1085 | 0.7643 | |
| 11 | University of Houston-Clear Lake | 10300 | 10300 | 0 | 6,029 | 1075 | 0.9173 | |
| 13 | Valdosta State University | 11500 | 25300 | 0.5447 | 7,199 | 1005 | 0.7769 | |
| 14 | Lamar University | 12400 | 22900 | 0.458 | 8,387 | 1040 | 0.8353 | |
| 14 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 12400 | 29600 | 0.5802 | 39,193 | 1418 | 0.4081 | |
| 14 | Wayne State University | 12400 | 32900 | 0.6228 | 16,390 | 1183 | 0.8359 | |
| 17 | University of North Florida | 12600 | 22400 | 0.438 | 14,837 | 1124 | 0.6815 | |
| 18 | University of North Carolina at Greensboro | 13200 | 19400 | 0.3197 | 14,865 | 1175 | 0.9113 | |
| 19 | University of Louisiana at Monroe | 13300 | 52800 | 0.7484 | 6,761 | 1105 | 0.8475 | |
| 19 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | 13300 | 13300 | 0 | 18,667 | 1090 | 0.9711 | |
| 21 | Coastal Carolina University | 13400 | 72300 | 0.8149 | 11,471 | 1160 | 0.7003 | |
| 22 | University of South Carolina-Upstate | 13900 | 34500 | 0.5969 | 4,789 | 1040 | 0.6671 | |
| 23 | University of Wisconsin-Green Bay | 14100 | 19600 | 0.2805 | 10,995 | 1090 | 0.7476 | |
| 24 | University of North Georgia | 14300 | 56800 | 0.7485 | 19,321 | 1100 | 0.9618 | |
| 25 | Northwestern State University of Louisiana | 14500 | 28600 | 0.4937 | 7,501 | 1055 | 0.9467 | |
| 26 | University of California-Riverside | 14600 | 118100 | 0.8761 | 24,034 | 1199 | 0.8609 | |
| 27 | Wayne State College | 14900 | 26400 | 0.4352 | 3,886 | 0 | 1 | |
| 28 | Coppin State University | 15100 | 51800 | 0.7078 | 1,908 | 950 | 0.4583 | |
| 28 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Greater Allegheny | 15100 | 43300 | 0.6514 | 308 | 1144 | 0.9053 | |
| 30 | Concord University | 15200 | 31700 | 0.5213 | 1,638 | 1015 | 0.9728 | |
| 31 | Radford University | 15400 | 32000 | 0.5196 | 6,206 | 1050 | 0.8939 | |
| 32 | Jacksonville State University | 15500 | 42900 | 0.638 | 8,663 | 1069 | 0.7769 | |
| 33 | The University of Texas at Arlington | 15900 | 27700 | 0.4254 | 32,545 | 1129 | 0.799 | |
| 34 | Emporia State University | 16100 | 22900 | 0.2971 | 2,396 | 1075 | 0.9771 | |
| 35 | Frostburg State University | 16200 | 34600 | 0.5318 | 3,436 | 1095 | 0.907 | |
| 36 | Alabama State University | 16300 | 33500 | 0.5127 | 3,521 | 945 | 0.9755 | |
| 37 | Morgan State University | 16600 | 28500 | 0.4173 | 9,027 | 965 | 0.8223 | |
| 37 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 16600 | 64800 | 0.7439 | 22,007 | 1427 | 0.1672 | |
| 39 | Southern University at New Orleans | 16700 | 41400 | 0.5973 | 2,179 | 950 | 0.789 | |
| 40 | Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | 17000 | 20700 | 0.1787 | 8,673 | 1095 | 0.9156 | |
| 41 | Boston College | 17100 | 122200 | 0.8597 | 9,677 | 1484 | 0.1422 | |
| 42 | University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown | 17200 | 43500 | 0.6051 | 1,829 | 1149 | 0.945 | |
| 43 | East Carolina University | 17600 | 26100 | 0.3256 | 21,693 | 1065 | 0.9003 | |
| 44 | University of South Alabama | 17700 | 40600 | 0.5635 | 9,530 | 1140 | 0.9455 | |
| 45 | Kennesaw State University | 18000 | 61500 | 0.7069 | 46,069 | 1119 | 0.7944 | |
| 46 | Notre Dame of Maryland University | 18100 | 68100 | 0.7344 | 711 | 1030 | 0.8214 | |
| 46 | Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania | 18100 | 25200 | 0.2814 | 7,088 | 1100 | 0.7448 | |
| 46 | The University of Texas Permian Basin | 18100 | 28600 | 0.3669 | 3,991 | 1010 | 0.9654 | |
| 49 | SUNY Brockport | 18400 | 26200 | 0.2972 | 5,816 | 1195 | 0.7068 | |
| 50 | University of Rhode Island | 18500 | 81200 | 0.7721 | 14,466 | 1197 | 0.7456 | |
| 51 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Hazleton | 18700 | 44600 | 0.5804 | 504 | 1200 | 0.9095 | |
| 51 | San Jose State University | 18700 | 41100 | 0.5452 | 29,890 | 1135 | 0.8039 | |
| 53 | Texas A&M University-Victoria | 18900 | 25000 | 0.2442 | 2,627 | 1000 | 0.5253 | |
| 54 | Norwich University | 19600 | 76000 | 0.7417 | 2,626 | 1186 | 0.7444 | |
| 55 | Syracuse University | 19800 | 83600 | 0.7632 | 16,149 | 1374 | 0.4879 | |
| 56 | Dakota State University | 20400 | 22500 | 0.0912 | 3,085 | 1174 | 0.9241 | |
| 57 | Grove City College | 20500 | 39700 | 0.4842 | 2,247 | 1248 | 0.667 | |
| 57 | Texas A&M University-Commerce | 20500 | 36600 | 0.4396 | 9,666 | 1040 | 0.7498 | |
| 59 | Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | 20600 | 57800 | 0.6433 | 1,109 | 1175 | 0.9088 | |
| 60 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Abington | 20700 | 48100 | 0.5694 | 2,710 | 1218 | 0.9374 | |
| 61 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks | 21000 | 48000 | 0.5625 | 1,709 | 1218 | 0.9653 | |
| 61 | Tarleton State University | 21000 | 23000 | 0.087 | 17,556 | 1090 | 0.5386 | |
| 63 | Thiel College | 21200 | 88800 | 0.7617 | 830 | 1065 | 0.7189 | |
| 64 | Luther College | 21500 | 75400 | 0.7153 | 1,384 | 1226 | 0.8398 | |
| 65 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 21800 | 37300 | 0.4156 | 26,490 | 1183 | 0.8863 | |
| 66 | Grand Valley State University | 21900 | 36600 | 0.4016 | 19,154 | 1074 | 0.9271 | |
| 67 | Texas Southern University | 22100 | 25500 | 0.1335 | 6,844 | 915 | 0.9691 | |
| 68 | Averett University | 22300 | 57400 | 0.612 | 1,244 | 1054 | 0.5659 | |
| 69 | Brigham Young University-Hawaii | 22600 | 25400 | 0.1104 | 2,907 | 1125 | 0.4696 | |
| 70 | Fort Hays State University | 22900 | 28500 | 0.196 | 10,172 | 1075 | 0.9026 | |
| 70 | Pennsylvania Western University | 22900 | 34400 | 0.334 | 7,586 | 1045 | 0.9433 | |
| 72 | Florida Memorial University | 23100 | 41500 | 0.4433 | 1,206 | 0 | 0.8526 | |
| 72 | Robert Morris University | 23100 | 58000 | 0.6012 | 4,325 | 1145 | 0.8989 | |
| 74 | Houghton University | 23200 | 44300 | 0.4763 | 958 | 1277 | 0.89 | |
| 75 | Columbia College | 23600 | 65100 | 0.6372 | 876 | 1025 | 0.8878 | |
| 76 | Dominican University | 23900 | 56000 | 0.573 | 2,642 | 1005 | 0.8879 | |
| 77 | Fairmont State University | 24100 | 30900 | 0.22 | 3,090 | 970 | 0.9862 | |
| 78 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 24400 | 31600 | 0.2275 | 9,827 | 1329 | 0.6737 | |
| 79 | University of Arkansas at Little Rock | 24900 | 55700 | 0.5532 | 5,939 | 1065 | 0.5878 | |
| 80 | Central College | 25600 | 38700 | 0.3388 | 1,050 | 1159 | 0.8698 | |
| 81 | Loyola University Maryland | 25800 | 78800 | 0.6727 | 4,013 | 1329 | 0.6986 | |
| 81 | Northwood University | 25800 | 75700 | 0.6596 | 2,045 | 1055 | 0.6451 | |
| 83 | University of North Texas | 25900 | 36900 | 0.2983 | 34,414 | 1094 | 0.7089 | |
| 84 | Minnesota State University Moorhead | 26000 | 28300 | 0.0809 | 3,375 | 1090 | 0.5885 | |
| 84 | West Virginia Wesleyan College | 26000 | 53800 | 0.5169 | 971 | 1030 | 0.9334 | |
| 86 | Indiana University-Indianapolis | 26100 | 28400 | 0.0805 | 14,834 | 1149 | 0.7803 | |
| 86 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg | 26100 | 50000 | 0.4777 | 4,047 | 1219 | 0.976 | |
| 86 | University of Akron Main Campus | 26100 | 28000 | 0.0677 | 11,691 | 1074 | 0.7722 | |
| 89 | Bowling Green State University-Main Campus | 26300 | 36800 | 0.2855 | 15,273 | 1115 | 0.8089 | |
| 90 | Bemidji State University | 26400 | 26400 | 0 | 3,751 | 1075 | 0.5598 | |
| 91 | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | 26700 | 39800 | 0.3289 | 29,727 | 990 | 0.9229 | |
| 91 | Wright State University-Main Campus | 26700 | 43300 | 0.3837 | 7,747 | 1073 | 0.9617 | |
| 93 | Colorado State University Pueblo | 26800 | 30100 | 0.1094 | 3,893 | 1015 | 0.9839 | |
| 94 | Rowan University | 27300 | 41300 | 0.3392 | 17,157 | 1204 | 0.7654 | |
| 95 | Bethune-Cookman University | 27700 | 32300 | 0.1422 | 2,739 | 910 | 0.8824 | |
| 96 | Central Connecticut State University | 27800 | 29500 | 0.0576 | 9,463 | 1020 | 0.793 | |
| 96 | University of Nebraska at Omaha | 27800 | 27800 | 0 | 11,756 | 1124 | 0.8727 | |
| 98 | Clemson University | 29000 | 37100 | 0.2179 | 23,401 | 1343 | 0.3834 | |
| 99 | California Lutheran University | 29600 | 109800 | 0.7307 | 2,160 | 1218 | 0.7631 | |
| 99 | University of South Florida | 29600 | 36700 | 0.1934 | 39,093 | 1255 | 0.4071 | |
| 101 | Saint Xavier University | 29900 | 57200 | 0.4775 | 3,100 | 1050 | 0.843 | |
| 101 | Thomas Jefferson University | 29900 | 68700 | 0.5649 | 3,772 | 1255 | 0.8098 | |
| 101 | Towson University | 29900 | 39200 | 0.2374 | 16,361 | 1082 | 0.8057 | |
| 104 | Grambling State University | 30300 | 35800 | 0.1538 | 4,313 | 950 | 0.4486 | |
| 105 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Mont Alto | 30500 | 44300 | 0.3112 | 586 | 1140 | 0.9577 | |
| 105 | University of Northwestern-St Paul | 30500 | 54600 | 0.4413 | 3,120 | 1193 | 0.3992 | |
| 107 | University of Toledo | 30700 | 42000 | 0.269 | 10,726 | 1134 | 0.8889 | |
| 108 | Lincoln University | 30800 | 35000 | 0.12 | 1,926 | 920 | 0 | |
| 108 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 30800 | 36900 | 0.1662 | 5,687 | 1305 | 0.7863 | |
| 110 | Benedictine University | 30900 | 48900 | 0.3681 | 2,082 | 1124 | 0.9576 | |
| 111 | Suffolk University | 31000 | 110800 | 0.7201 | 4,247 | 1209 | 0.8228 | |
| 111 | Westfield State University | 31000 | 41500 | 0.2532 | 3,868 | 1105 | 0.8671 | |
| 113 | Angelo State University | 31600 | 35400 | 0.1071 | 10,103 | 1045 | 0.7981 | |
| 113 | Hampton University | 31600 | 54800 | 0.4233 | 4,046 | 1005 | 0.6358 | |
| 115 | Cleveland State University | 31700 | 32100 | 0.0125 | 9,418 | 1069 | 0.913 | |
| 116 | SUNY Buffalo State University | 32000 | 39900 | 0.1981 | 5,196 | 1050 | 0.8422 | |
| 117 | University of Scranton | 32400 | 78700 | 0.5879 | 3,689 | 1245 | 0.8006 | |
| 118 | State University of New York at Oswego | 32700 | 40200 | 0.1866 | 5,293 | 1179 | 0.7989 | |
| 119 | University of Maryland-Baltimore County | 32800 | 69700 | 0.529 | 11,087 | 1326 | 0.7397 | |
| 120 | University of South Carolina-Columbia | 33100 | 34200 | 0.0321 | 31,845 | 1298 | 0.5651 | |
| 121 | Harding University | 33500 | 47800 | 0.299 | 3,536 | 1184 | 0.7052 | |
| 122 | Elizabethtown College | 33700 | 69900 | 0.5181 | 1,935 | 1214 | 0.8892 | |
| 123 | Charleston Southern University | 34200 | 48400 | 0.295 | 3,126 | 1060 | 0.9646 | |
| 124 | George Washington University | 34300 | 81800 | 0.5808 | 11,495 | 1436 | 0.4713 | |
| 124 | Salisbury University | 34300 | 41600 | 0.1755 | 6,477 | 1245 | 0.8826 | |
| 126 | Lenoir-Rhyne University | 34500 | 62800 | 0.4506 | 1,495 | 1075 | 0.8761 | |
| 126 | SUNY at Fredonia | 34500 | 41000 | 0.1586 | 2,771 | 1258 | 0.777 | |
| 128 | Adelphi University | 35000 | 63300 | 0.4467 | 5,097 | 1241 | 0.7215 | |
| 128 | SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 35000 | 38900 | 0.1002 | 1,973 | 1189 | 0.8142 | |
| 130 | Christopher Newport University | 35300 | 38700 | 0.0879 | 4,369 | 1189 | 0.8604 | |
| 131 | Bradley University | 35400 | 60000 | 0.4103 | 3,258 | 1174 | 0.7459 | |
| 132 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 36400 | 53600 | 0.321 | 32,041 | 1324 | 0.4358 | |
| 133 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Altoona | 36900 | 47900 | 0.2294 | 2,280 | 1224 | 0.9675 | |
| 134 | Saint Michael's College | 37500 | 75600 | 0.5042 | 1,051 | 1280 | 0.8976 | |
| 134 | Stockton University | 37500 | 45300 | 0.1723 | 7,583 | 1134 | 0.901 | |
| 136 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 37800 | 40100 | 0.0571 | 25,054 | 1225 | 0.7762 | |
| 137 | Drexel University | 39600 | 107600 | 0.6318 | 12,318 | 1354 | 0.699 | |
| 138 | Stony Brook University | 39700 | 53000 | 0.2507 | 18,616 | 1410 | 0.4818 | |
| 139 | James Madison University | 39900 | 45100 | 0.1153 | 21,358 | 1259 | 0.6879 | |
| 140 | Immaculata University | 40000 | 60400 | 0.3378 | 1,889 | 1264 | 0.8656 | |
| 141 | Elmhurst University | 40200 | 69600 | 0.4222 | 3,170 | 1133 | 0.7501 | |
| 142 | Furman University | 40300 | 84600 | 0.5234 | 2,304 | 1372 | 0.4869 | |
| 143 | Pace University | 40500 | 75500 | 0.4636 | 5,520 | 1273 | 0.7827 | |
| 144 | McKendree University | 40600 | 52900 | 0.2324 | 1,757 | 1098 | 0.7172 | |
| 145 | University of Illinois Chicago | 40800 | 51300 | 0.2046 | 24,260 | 1174 | 0.7576 | |
| 146 | Mercy University | 41300 | 46400 | 0.11 | 6,692 | 1135 | 0.8724 | |
| 147 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 41400 | 58900 | 0.2971 | 21,388 | 1369 | 0.5945 | |
| 148 | University of Mount Olive | 42100 | 50400 | 0.1645 | 1,944 | 1075 | 0.7575 | |
| 149 | University of Maryland-College Park | 43000 | 68700 | 0.3743 | 31,875 | 1456 | 0.4503 | |
| 150 | Western Oregon University | 43400 | 43400 | 0 | 3,034 | 1120 | 0.8345 | |
| 151 | Merrimack College | 43500 | 78800 | 0.4479 | 4,123 | 1124 | 0.6927 | |
| 152 | Virginia Commonwealth University | 43600 | 53400 | 0.1837 | 21,469 | 1167 | 0.9061 | |
| 153 | Wentworth Institute of Technology | 43900 | 103500 | 0.5757 | 4,182 | 1317 | 0.8783 | |
| 154 | Mercer University | 45700 | 65400 | 0.3015 | 4,719 | 1263 | 0.643 | |
| 155 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 47100 | 59800 | 0.2121 | 37,985 | 1390 | 0.5815 | |
| 156 | DePaul University | 49000 | 66400 | 0.2619 | 14,338 | 1258 | 0.878 | |
| 157 | Ramapo College of New Jersey | 49100 | 58900 | 0.1663 | 5,492 | 1210 | 0.7026 | |
| 158 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Schuylkill | 49400 | 61100 | 0.1915 | 653 | 1145 | 0.7972 | |
| 159 | University of Colorado Boulder | 50000 | 56000 | 0.1072 | 32,244 | 1351 | 0.7809 | |
| 160 | Rutgers University-Newark | 50400 | 59900 | 0.1587 | 7,989 | 1159 | 0.7136 | |
| 161 | University of Kentucky | 51300 | 74100 | 0.3075 | 25,535 | 1193 | 0.9294 | |
| 162 | University of Utah | 51400 | 53700 | 0.0426 | 29,335 | 1222 | 0.9015 | |
| 163 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 58100 | 59900 | 0.0301 | 12,122 | 1283 | 0.8296 | |
| 164 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 58400 | 63500 | 0.0803 | 42,604 | 1336 | 0.6056 | |
| 165 | Molloy University | 58600 | 62300 | 0.0594 | 3,396 | 1188 | 0.6633 | |
| 166 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Brandywine | 60600 | 65000 | 0.0677 | 1,078 | 1217 | 0.9646 | |
| 167 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Beaver | 63600 | 63600 | 0 | 475 | 1195 | 0.9418 | |
| 168 | College of Charleston | 69300 | 69300 | 0 | 10,596 | 1234 | 0.73 | |
| 169 | Fordham University | 73700 | 103900 | 0.2907 | 10,582 | 1406 | 0.5931 |
School data is from 2023–2024 (top 500 results shown) for schools with at least 100 undergraduate students.