by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual produces its Best Quality Schools rankings on a yearly basis to recognize those graduate schools that provide an excellent educational experience and are dedicated to helping their students succeed. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
Out of the 1149 colleges and universities analyzed in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, Alvernia University took the #606 spot.
Alvernia also ranked #43 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Alvernia came in at #363.
Alvernia also ranked #28 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania.
The total graduate student population at Alvernia is made up of 70.5% women and 29.5% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Alvernia, around 24.7% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Alvernia is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 1.7% of the graduate student population. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $15,660 | $15,660 |
| Fees | $470 | $470 |
Master's degree recipients from Alvernia earn an average salary of $57,179 during the early years of their career. That's about 2% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from Alvernia enter careers with an average starting salary of $67,143. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 11% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Alvernia University.
Contact details for Alvernia are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 400 Saint Bernardine St, Reading, PA 19607-1799 |
| Phone: | 610-796-8200 |
| Website: | https://www.alvernia.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/AlverniaUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/AlverniaUniv |
In 2020-2021, 42.5% of the graduate students at Alvernia University took at least one class online. Roughly 20.0% of all grad students took courses exclusively online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Human Resource Management | 2 |
| Nursing | 4 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 26 |
Footnotes
*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.
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