Roger Williams University Business Programs

Roger Williams University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bristol, Rhode Island. RWU is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards RWU has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#36	Highest Paid Organizational Leadership Graduates	College Factual
#42	Best Associate Degree Schools	Course Advisor
#106	Highest Paid Accounting Graduates	College Factual
#123	Highest Paid Master’s Degree Business Administration & Management Graduates	College Factual
#127	Highest Paid Accounting Graduates	College Factual
#143	Highest Paid Master’s Degree Business, Management & Marketing Graduates	College Factual

Where Is Roger Williams University?

Contact details for RWU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	One Old Ferry Road, Bristol, RI 02809-2921
Phone:	401-253-1040
Website:	https://www.rwu.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/rogerwilliamsuniversity
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/myrwu

How Do I Get Into RWU?

You can apply to RWU online at: www.commonapp.org/

Admission Requirements for RWU

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	required
SAT or ACT Scores	neither required nor recommended
TOEFL	recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into RWU?

Since RWU has an acceptance rate of 86%, it is not too hard to gain acceptance into the school. Still, you need to be sure you complete your application in full and send in any other requested documents.

Approximately 44% of accepted students are men and 56% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 82%, and the acceptance rate for women is 89%.

Can I Afford Roger Williams University?

The overall average net price of RWU is $43,481. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At RWU, approximately 71% of students took out student loans averaging $13,549 a year. That adds up to $54,196 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at RWU is 3.7%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Roger Williams University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 4,346 undergraduate students at RWU, with 3,828 being full-time and 518 being part-time.

There are also 356 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 3,828 full-time undergraduates at RWU, 49% are male and 51% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Roger Williams University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	65
Black or African American	88
Hispanic or Latino	335
White	2,959
International Students	33
Other Races/Ethnicities	348

Geographic Diversity

Rhode Island students aren't the only ones who study at Roger Williams University. At this time, 25 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 39 countries are represented at RWU. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Saudi Arabia, China, and Dominican Republic.

Online Learning at Roger Williams University

In 2019-2020, 4,202 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at RWU has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 5th most popular in Rhode Island for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of RWU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Roger Williams University was -17.6%. This is the #1,763 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at RWU regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Roger Williams University Business Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	83	0	83
General Business Administration and Management	48	24	72
Financial Planning & Services	60	0	60
Construction Management	44	2	46
Accounting	29	0	29
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	21	0	21
International Business/Trade/Commerce	13	0	13
General Economics	5	0	5
Operations Management	3	0	3
Organizational Leadership	0	2	2
Business Management & Marketing	2	0	2
International & Intercultural Communication	1	0	1
General Management Information Systems	0	0	0
General Organizational Communication	0	0	0
TOTAL	309	28	337

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Notyourbroom under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.