-46%
Johnson & Wales University-Providence · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Johnson & Wales University-Providence are 46% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($43.4k vs $80.0k).
State hub · Rhode Island · vintage 2025-05
Rhode Island Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Rhode Island — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Rhode Island
Top signals rolled up across Rhode Islandinstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-30%
Rhode Island School of Design · 100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Rhode Island School of Design fell 30% between 2021 and 2024 (69.5% → 48.7%).
-29%
Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy-Cranston · Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy-Cranston fell 29% between 2021 and 2024 (144 → 102).
-26%
Johnson & Wales University-Providence · Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 26% at Johnson & Wales University-Providence vs the 2018–2022 baseline (3.9k vs 5.3k).
-24%
Johnson & Wales University-Providence · 100%-time completion
100%-time completion at Johnson & Wales University-Providence fell 24% between 2021 and 2024 (51.4% → 39.3%).
-21%
IYRS School of Technology & Trades · 150%-time completion
150%-time completion at IYRS School of Technology & Trades fell 21% between 2006 and 2009 (91.7% → 72.2%).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Rhode Island Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
15
Title-IV main campuses1,042
with published outcomes$68,941
across institutions70.6%
median across institutions59,294
latest historical vintage$43,419
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Rhode Island has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+154%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$17,110 → $43,419
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
11 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 11 of 15 Title-IV institutions · Public 3 · Private 10 · For-profit 2
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 9 Rhode Island cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.