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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Lewis University landed the #419 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, Lewis took the #20 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Illinois.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Lewis came in at #404.
Lewis also ranked #21 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Illinois.
The total graduate student population at Lewis is made up of 70.3% women and 29.7% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Lewis, around 32.5% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Lewis is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 3.9% 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 | $14,760 | $14,760 |
| Fees | $200 | $200 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Lewis is $70,882. That's about 21% higher than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Lewis University.
Contact details for Lewis are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One University Parkway, Romeoville, IL 60446-2200 |
| Phone: | 815-838-0500 |
| Website: | www.lewisu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/lewisu.edu/ |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/LewisUniversity |
Around 78.9% of Lewis graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 50.1% 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| Educational Administration | 5 |
| Nursing | 6 |
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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