For the 2023-2024 academic year: The average cost of attendance of an international student (Tuition Cost + Living Expenses) for undergraduate students is approximately $65,000, and for graduate students it is approximately $35,000.
Johnson and Wales University
Providence, Rhode Island
$35,000 - $65,000
Johnson & Wales University (JWU) is a private, non-profit university that was initially established as a business school in 1914 in Providence, Rhode Island. Over the years, JWU has expanded to become a junior college, senior college, and ultimately a university. The Providence campus is in an ideal college town, offering vibrant arts and music scene, professional sports, and easy access to over 380 miles of nearby coastline. Additionally, Providence's proximity to major cities like Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia provides students with valuable opportunities for internships, jobs, and networking. The Providence campus is home to various colleges and academic units, including the College of Business, the Hospitality College, the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering & Design, the Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate School, the College of Culinary Arts, and the School of Education, which offers specialized master's and doctoral degree programs.
Points of Pride
- The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education has listed JWU on its 2022 College Rankings, which focuses on students’ engagement with studies, interaction with teachers and satisfaction with educational experience.
- U.S. News & World Report ranked JWU in the 2022 Top Performers on Social Mobility, which measures how well schools graduated students who received Pell Grants, given to students from households with annual incomes of less than $50,000.
- Money Magazine also ranked JWU among its Best Colleges for 2020-21 by its value, quality of education, affordability and outcomes including graduates’ earnings, employment status, career trajectory and socioeconomic mobility.
- JWU Charlotte has ranked #3 in CEOWorld Magazine’s 2023 list of the “Best Hospitality and Hotel Management Schools In The World.”
- The Providence Campus is spread across more than 170 acres and 2,439,000 square feet of 52 buildings, including residence halls, classrooms, labs, dining halls, libraries, offices, open spaces, and internship, recreation and physical plant facilities.
University Highlights
- The Providence Campus is spread across more than 170 acres and 2,439,000 square feet of 52 buildings, including residence halls, classrooms, labs, dining halls, libraries, offices, open spaces, and internship, recreation and physical plant facilities.
- JWU’s diverse student body includes 230 international students representing 54 countries. Our top 10 international student populations represent India, People’s Republic of China, South Korea, the Bahamas, Indonesia, Jamaica, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Taiwan ROC and Panama. JWU ranked nationally as the 26th overall master’s institution for sending students abroad to one of 56 study abroad and exchange programs in 31 countries. (Source: Institute of International Education’s 2020 Open Doors report)
- More than 90+% of all JWU students receive institutional scholarships and/or grants from the university.
- #70 in Regional Universities North
- #46 in Best Value Schools
- 15:1 Student-to-faculty ratio
- 1100+ internship sites in 47 states and 28 countries
- 1450+ internships per year
- 95.4% JWU’s Career Outcome Rate
- 98.5% of on-ground JWU students receive aid
- 78% students Received a job offer after paid internship
- JWU ranked #70 among the Best Regional Universities, North - U.S. News & World Report
- JWU ranked #19 among the Best Regional Colleges, South - U.S. News & World Report
- JWU ranked #46 among the Best Value Schools - U.S. News & World Report
Programs
UnderGraduate
- Accounting (BS)
- Adventure, Sport and Sustainable Tourism Management (BS)
- Advertising & Marketing Communications (BS)
- Animal Science (BS)
- Applied Food Science (BS)
- Baking & Pastry Arts (BS)
- Baking & Pastry Arts and Food Service Management (BS)
- Beverage Sales & Marketing Management (BS)
- Biology (BS) - STEM Designated
- Biomedical Engineering (BS) - STEM Designated
- Business Administration (BSBA)
- Business Studies (BS)
- Cannabis Entrepreneurship (BS)
- Computer Engineering (BS) - STEM Designated
- Computer Science (BS) - STEM designated
- Corporate Accounting and Financial Analysis (BS)
- Criminal Justice (BS)
- Culinary Arts (BS)
- Culinary Arts and Food Service Management (BS)
- Culinary Nutrition (BS)
- Culinary Science & Product Development (BS)
- Cyber Threat Intelligence & Defence (BS)
- Data Analytics (BS) - STEM Designated
- Dietetics and Applied Nutrition (BS)
- Digital Marketing & social media (BS)
- Electronics Engineering (BS) - STEM Designated
- Entrepreneurship (BSBA)
- Equine Studies (BS)
- Exercise and Sports Science (BS)
- Fashion Merchandising & Retailing (BS)
- Finance (BS)
- Food & Beverage Entrepreneurship (BS)
- Food & Beverage Industry Management (BS)
- Food Industry Compliance Management (BS)
- Graphic Design (BS)
- Health Science (BS)
- Healthcare Administration (BS)
- Hospitality Management (BS)
- Human Resource Management (BSBA)
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Design Your Own Major (BA)
- International Business (BSBA)
- Liberal Studies (BS)
- Management (BSBA)
- Marketing (BS)
- Media & Communication Studies (BA)
- Nursing (ABSN)
- Operations and Supply Chain Management (BSBA)
- Political Science (BS)
- Product Design (BS)
- Psychology (BS)
- Public Health (BS)
- Robotics Engineering (BS) - STEM Designated
- Sports, Entertainment, Event — Management (BS)
- Sustainable Food Systems (BS)
Graduate
- Addiction Counselling (MS)
- Clinical Mental Health Counselling (MS)
- Criminal Justice (MS)
- Cybersecurity (MS) - STEM Designated
- Data Analytics (MS) - STEM Designated
- Engineering Management (MS) - STEM Designated
- Finance (MS)
- Food Innovation & Technology (MS)
- Food Safety (MS)
- Global Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development (MS)
- Hospitality Management (MS)
- Human Resource Management (MS)
- International Beverage Management (MS)
- MBA One-Year Program
- MBA — Accounting
- MBA — Finance
- MBA — Global Fashion Merchandising and Management
- MBA — Hospitality
- MBA — Human Resource Management
- MBA — Information Security/Assurance
- MBA — Information Technology
- MBA — Marketing
- MBA — Nonprofit Management
- MBA — Operations and Supply Chain Management
- MBA — Organizational Leadership
- MBA — Organizational Psychology
- MBA — Project Management
- MBA — Sport Leadership
- MPA – Criminal Justice
- MPA — Homeland Security
- MPA — Human Resource Management
- MPA — Nonprofit Management
- Nonprofit Management (MS)
- Nutrition (MS)
- Occupational Therapy (OTD)
- Operations & Project Management (MS)
- Organizational Psychology (MS)
- Physician Assistant Studies (MSPAS)
- Public Health (MPH)
- Teacher Education — Business/Secondary Special Education or Elementary/Elementary Special Education (MAT)
- Teacher Education — Culinary Arts Education Concentration (MAT)
- Teaching and Learning (MEd)
- Undeclared: Business Explorations
- Undeclared: University Explorations
For a complete list of majors please visit the URL:
www.jwu.edu/academics/programs/explore.html
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