Worst Colleges in America by State

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Rhode Island has a lot going for it, namely good colleges. It was tough to pick one that was really terrible, but we landed on Rhode Island College due to the lower starting salary, which is merely $37,000 staring salary. That's not terrible, but others near by are simply better. 

Rhode Island – Rhode Island College

Along with that, Rhode Island College has a 42.6% graduation rate, $25,236 average student loan debt, with 8.2% of graduates defaulting on their student loans. The competition is just pretty stiff in this small state. 

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Did you know...

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  • Teaching is a hard job, and when compared to other industrialized nations, American teacher pay is middle-of-the-pack. Maybe that’s what explains a University of Pennsylvania study that found a third of teachers quit the profession within the first 3 years. When you extend the time frame to five years, 46% leave.
  • The oldest continually operating higher ed institution in the world is the University of al-Qarawiyyin. It was established in Fez, Morocco, in the year 859. That makes it over 1,160 years old! It was founded by a woman, Fatima al-Fihri, and became one of the leading spiritual and educational centers in the Muslim world. It joined the modern Morocco university system in 1963.
  • Did you know that illiteracy and crime are correlated? One study found that up to two-thirds of students who could not read with proficiency by the end of 4th grade ended up on welfare or in jail. One of the most effective anti-crime efforts is to fund quality educational programs.
  • Competition among the country's top universities is so fierce that they are forced to turn away high-performing prospective students. Harvard and Stanford, for instance, turned away a full half of their applicants who scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT. You don't have to worry about them, though. They got in elsewhere.