by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. 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, North Central College landed the #496 spot.
In addition, North Central took the #24 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Illinois.
The total graduate student population at North Central is made up of 73.1% women and 26.9% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 17.9% of the graduate students who attend North Central are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 0.6% 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 | $15,822 | $15,822 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from North Central is $59,779. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 2% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of North Central College.
Contact details for North Central are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 30 N Brainard St, Naperville, IL 60540 |
| Phone: | 630-637-5100 |
| Website: | northcentralcollege.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/NorthCentralCollege |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/northcentralcol |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 67.3% of the graduate students at North Central took at least one online course. Roughly 49.7% 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 |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 35 |
| Computer Science | 2 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 13 |
| Educational Administration | 22 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 2 |
| Health & Physical Education | 6 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 7 |
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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