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.
Capital University came in at #852 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.
Capital also ranked #34 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Ohio.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Capital came in at #624.
In addition, Capital took the #22 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Ohio.
Women make up 57.3% of the total graduate student body at Capital while men make you 42.7%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Capital, around 18.3% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Capital is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 2.2% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $12,780 | $12,780 |
| Fees | $410 | $410 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Capital, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $68,428. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 17% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Capital is $50,882. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 32% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Capital University.
Contact details for Capital are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 College And Main, Columbus, OH 43209-2394 |
| Phone: | 614-236-6011 |
| Website: | https://www.capital.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/CapitalU |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/capital_u |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 40.4% of the graduate students at Capital took at least one online course. Approximately 10.4% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
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 | 33 |
| Educational Administration | 5 |
| Nursing | 9 |
| Sacred Music | 1 |
| Student Counseling | 7 |
| Taxation | 1 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 3 |
| Theological & Ministerial Studies | 17 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Law | 121 |
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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