by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping 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.
Briar Cliff University came in at #698 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
In addition, Briar Cliff took the #15 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Iowa.
Briar Cliff was ranked #569 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, Briar Cliff took the #9 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Iowa.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 70.3% of the total graduate students at Briar Cliff are women and 29.7% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 18.5% of the graduate student population at Briar Cliff. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 1.5% of graduate students hail from another country. 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 | $9,450 | $9,450 |
| Fees | $1,080 | $1,080 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Briar Cliff is $59,675. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 2% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from Briar Cliff earn an average salary of $62,863 during the early years of their career. That's about 16% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Briar Cliff University.
Contact details for Briar Cliff are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 3303 Rebecca Street, Sioux City, IA 51104 |
| Phone: | 712-279-5321 |
| Website: | www.briarcliff.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/briarcliffuniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/briar_cliff |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 64.1% of the graduate students at Briar Cliff took at least one online course. Roughly 64.1% 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.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 16 |
| Nursing | 27 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Nursing | 3 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 31 |
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.
References
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