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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Eastern Washington University landed the #390 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
EWU also ranked #12 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Washington.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and EWU took the #290 spot on the list.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Washington, EWU came in at #8.
Women make up 70.5% of the total graduate student body at EWU while men make you 29.5%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at EWU, around 23.8% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. EWU is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 0.1% 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 | $12,353 | $27,939 |
| Fees | $1,026 | $1,026 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from EWU enter careers with an average starting salary of $51,351. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 12% lower than the national average of $58,425.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from EWU, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $71,516. That's about 5% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Eastern Washington University.
Contact details for EWU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 526 5Th Street, Cheney, WA 99004-2496 |
| Phone: | 509-359-6200 |
| Website: | www.ewu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/ewueagles |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 64.4% of the graduate students at EWU took at least one online course. Approximately 49.3% 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 37 |
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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