College 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.
Central Methodist University - College of Graduate & Extended Studies landed the #1149 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
CMU CGES also ranked #30 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Missouri.
Women make up 75.5% of the total graduate student body at CMU CGES while men make you 24.5%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.

Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 13.7% of the graduate student population at CMU CGES. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 1.0% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $6,075 | $6,075 |
| Fees | $360 | $360 |
Master's degree recipients from CMU CGES earn an average salary of $48,562 during the early years of their career. That's about 17% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.


Contact details for CMU CGES are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 411 Central Methodist Square, Fayette, MO 65248-1198 |
| Phone: | 660-248-3391 |
| Website: | www.centralmethodist.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/centralmethodist |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/cmuniv |
About 76.4% of the graduate students at Central Methodist University - College of Graduate & Extended Studies took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 51.1% 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 |
|---|---|
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 12 |
| General Education | 36 |
| Mathematics | 14 |
| Nursing | 13 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 5 |
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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