by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual produces its Best Quality Schools rankings on a yearly basis to recognize those graduate schools that provide an excellent educational experience and are dedicated to helping their 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.
Out of a field of 1149 colleges and universities considered in the 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, Grambling State University landed the #1081 spot.
In addition, GSU took the #17 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Louisiana.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and GSU took the #610 spot on the list.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 74.2% of the total graduate students at GSU are women and 25.8% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 96.2% of the graduate student population at GSU. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 2.3% 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 | $5,110 | $5,110 |
| Fees | $2,306 | $11,329 |
After obtaining their master's degree from GSU, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $34,391. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 41% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Grambling State University.
Contact details for GSU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 403 Main Street, Grambling, LA 71245 |
| Phone: | 318-247-3811 |
| Website: | www.gram.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/GramblingStateUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/grambling1901 |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 87.1% of the graduate students at GSU took at least one online course. Roughly 74.6% 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 |
|---|---|
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 84 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 3 |
| General Social Sciences | 35 |
| Health & Physical Education | 32 |
| Nursing | 8 |
| Other Education | 8 |
| Public Administration | 4 |
| Social Work | 20 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Other Education | 11 |
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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