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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Murray State University landed the #560 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, Murray State took the #10 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Kentucky.
Murray State was ranked #424 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
Murray State also ranked #6 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Kentucky.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 66.2% of the total graduate students at Murray State are women and 33.8% are men.
Of all the graduate students at Murray State, around 13.3% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 4.4% 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 | $8,982 | $13,644 |
| Fees | $900 | $900 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Murray State is $46,474. That's about 20% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Doctorate degree recipients from Murray State earn an average salary of $154,842 during the early years of their career. That's good news for those graduates since it is 106% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Murray State University.
Contact details for Murray State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 218 Wells Hall, Murray, KY 42071-3318 |
| Phone: | 270-809-3011 |
| Website: | www.murraystate.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/murraystateuniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/murraystateuniv |
In 2020-2021, 65.4% of the graduate students at Murray State University took at least one class online. Approximately 47.1% 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 | 18 |
| General English Literature | 18 |
| Nursing | 29 |
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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