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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., St. John Fisher College landed the #723 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
Fisher also ranked #51 for Best Master's Degree Schools in New York.
Fisher was ranked #373 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, Fisher took the #22 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in New York.
Women make up 72.4% of the total graduate student body at Fisher while men make you 27.6%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 22.3% of the graduate student population at Fisher. Fisher is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 0.7% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $18,054 | $18,054 |
| Fees | $270 | $270 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Fisher is $56,624. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 3% lower than the national average of $58,425.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from Fisher, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $102,922. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 37% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of St. John Fisher College.
Contact details for Fisher are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 3690 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14618-3597 |
| Phone: | 585-385-8000 |
| Website: | https://www.sjfc.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/StJohnFisherCollege |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/FisherNews |
Around 36.6% of Fisher graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 17.9% 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.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 67 |
| Educational Administration | 13 |
| Mental & Social Health Services | 23 |
| Nursing | 89 |
| Special Education | 18 |
| Statistics | 7 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 12 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 46 |
| Nursing | 3 |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 78 |
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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