Accredited master's MFT training exists at exactly one institution in Rhode Island, University of Rhode Island (MS). The useful question is not which of these is best but whether this one earns the years it will take, and this page is built to answer that.
Every accredited master's MFT program in Rhode Island, ranked
All 1 of Rhode Island’s accredited master's MFT programs carry a score out of 100. One publishes nothing, so it forfeits the 60 points for results and cannot pass 40. That is a statement about disclosure, not about teaching.
- #1
University of Rhode Island (MS)
Kingston, RI
19.3
program score
Blended or hybridMaster'sWhat to know about it
University of Rhode Island runs this degree from Kingston, RI, blended. No licensure rate is published, so the score rests on graduation and job placement alone. Ask this accredited program for the numbers it has not posted, specifically graduation and licensure across recent cohorts. A program that has them will send them, and one that hesitates has told you something. The disclosure is not optional under COAMFTE accreditation, so read the gap as something to raise with the program, not as something unremarkable. Next accreditation review falls in 2027. Three completed cohorts is a thin record, so ask what the years still in progress look like.
Why it sits here 19.3 of 100. The program forfeits the 60 points attached to published results by not publishing any, and keeps what transparency and standing earn it.
University of Rhode Island program page The address COAMFTE lists for its outcome data
Score breakdown
- Outcomes 0/60no completed-cohort outcomes published
- Transparency 7.5/25publishes a document with no cohort table in it
- Standing 11.8/15accredited without conditions, current term runs to 2027-11
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How is this ranking of Rhode Island MFT programs ordered?
This ranking of Rhode Island MFT programs is ordered on transparency and standing alone, because no accredited master's program in the state has published completed-cohort results and none of the scores below clears 40. Three components make up the 100: results carry 60, publishing them at all carries 25, and the accreditor's own verdict on the program carries 15.
Nothing is redistributed away from a program that publishes no results. The alternative is perverse, because it would put every silent program above every program honest enough to report a middling year.
Read a score in the twenties as "this program has not shown its results", never as "this program's results are poor". Nothing is imputed on a program's behalf; the missing component simply goes unearned, and the card explains that where it appears. COAMFTE requires this data to be published, which is why the absence is scorable at all.
For the full scoring model, including what it refuses to measure, see the methodology.
What do marriage and family therapists earn in Rhode Island?
No separate wage figure is published for marriage and family therapists in Rhode Island. The federal survey suppresses a state estimate when the surveyed headcount is too small to release without identifying employers, so there is nothing to quote rather than something disappointing to quote. The national median of $66,940 is the closest usable number. For how that compares with the rest of the country, see the salary page.
How do you get licensed as an MFT in Rhode Island?
To get licensed as an MFT in Rhode Island you need a qualifying master's degree before anything else, and with one accredited program in the state that step is the one most likely to involve looking beyond it. The hour counts, coursework rules and examination requirements that follow are the Rhode Island board's to set and to change, and this page does not reprint them, because a stale figure copied from a directory is worse than no figure at all.
What accreditation buys is a shorter conversation with the state board, which is why all one master's MFT program listed here is accredited and no unaccredited one appears. One practical note that applies wherever you train: start the conversation about supervised hours before you enroll, not after, because a program's placement network is the part that is hardest to replace yourself.
The Rhode Island state board is worth contacting before you apply, not after. Its answers on supervised hours and on out-of-state experience are the ones that bind, and they occasionally differ from what accredited programs tell prospective students.
The career page walks the same route in order, and the methodology sets out how the programs above were scored.
Where else can you study if Rhode Island does not have what you want?
If Rhode Island does not have what you want, you are in ordinary company, because a shortlist built only from this state would have one name on it.
The nearest alternatives with accredited master's MFT programs are Connecticut (three), New Hampshire (two), New York (four). 17 states have no accredited programs at this level at all, which is the gap the accredited distance programs exist to fill.
If moving is off the table, the online and hybrid master's ranking is the page to read next.
Every scored program at this level, 59 of them, sits on the national ranking.
Cities near Rhode Island with their own page
These sit elsewhere in the northeast, and each has a page covering the programs based there and what the job pays in that metropolitan area rather than statewide.
Common questions about MFT programs in Rhode Island
How many accredited master's MFT programs are in Rhode Island?
Can you get licensed as an MFT in Rhode Island with an online degree?
What do marriage and family therapists earn in Rhode Island?
What if the one accredited master's program in Rhode Island is not right for you?
Where do these figures come from?
The figures here come from the record each fact belongs to. What is accredited is the accreditor's to state, what a program achieved is that program's to publish, and what the work pays is the federal survey's to measure.
- COAMFTE Directory of Accredited Programs Accredited programs in Rhode Island, their level, city and status. Read 2026-08-21.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics May 2025 release, SOC 21-1013, all Rhode Island postholders.
- Ranking methodology The three factors, their weights, and the eligibility floor.