by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began producing its annual Best Quality Schools rankings as a means to assist students in finding top-quality graduate colleges and universities that are invested in preparing their students for their future endeavors. 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, Loyola Marymount University landed the #73 spot. This places the school in the Top 10% of the country for overall quality. For this achievement, Loyola Marymount received one of this year's Best Master's Schools badges.
Loyola Marymount also ranked #12 for Best Master's Degree Schools in California.
Loyola Marymount was ranked #185 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
Loyola Marymount also ranked #26 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in California.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 62.6% of the total graduate students at Loyola Marymount are women and 37.4% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 51.4% of the graduate student population at Loyola Marymount. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 8.7% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $19,642 | $19,642 |
| Fees | $280 | $280 |
Master's degree recipients from Loyola Marymount earn an average salary of $56,206 during the early years of their career. That's about 4% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Loyola Marymount is $87,313. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 16% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Loyola Marymount University.
Contact details for Loyola Marymount are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One Lmu Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 |
| Phone: | 310-338-2700 |
| Website: | https://www.lmu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/lmula |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/loyolamarymount |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 65.6% of the graduate students at Loyola Marymount took at least one online course. Approximately 30.7% 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.
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 | 14 |
| Law | 305 |
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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