by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. 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.
Elms College landed the #755 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.
Elms College also ranked #39 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and Elms College took the #277 spot on the list.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Massachusetts, Elms College came in at #15.
The total graduate student population at Elms College is made up of 80.3% women and 19.7% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 28.9% of the graduate students who attend Elms College are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Elms College is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 1.5% 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 | $15,792 | $15,792 |
| Fees | $225 | $225 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Elms College enter careers with an average starting salary of $61,968. That's about 6% higher than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from Elms College enter careers with an average starting salary of $103,025. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 37% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Elms College.
Contact details for Elms College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 291 Springfield St, Chicopee, MA 01013 |
| Phone: | 413-594-2761 |
| Website: | https://www.elms.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/elmscollege |
| Twitter: | http://www.twitter.com/elmscollege |
In 2020-2021, 39.2% of the graduate students at Elms College took at least one class online. Approximately 20.7% 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 |
|---|---|
| Communication Sciences | 8 |
| Entrepreneurial Studies | 2 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 1 |
| General Biology | 26 |
| Nursing | 6 |
| Other Business, Management & Marketing | 15 |
| Religious Education | 2 |
| Special Education | 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 | 4 |
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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