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.
Out of a field of 1149 colleges and universities considered in the 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, Tennessee Technological University landed the #577 spot.
In addition, Tennessee Tech University took the #9 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Tennessee.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and Tennessee Tech University took the #388 spot on the list.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Tennessee, Tennessee Tech University came in at #8.
Women make up 59.1% of the total graduate student body at Tennessee Tech University while men make you 40.9%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 11.4% of the graduate students who attend Tennessee Tech University are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Tennessee Tech University is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 7.3% 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 | $10,480 | $19,420 |
| Fees | $1,282 | $1,282 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Tennessee Tech University, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $52,008. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 11% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Tennessee Technological University.
Contact details for Tennessee Tech University are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 William L. Jones Drive, Cookeville, TN 38505-0001 |
| Phone: | 931-372-3101 |
| Website: | www.tntech.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/tennesseetech |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/tennesseetech |
In 2020-2021, 76.3% of the graduate students at Tennessee Technological University took at least one class online. For that same period, 53.9% of grad students took all of their classes 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 |
|---|---|
| Curriculum & Instruction | 9 |
| General Engineering | 10 |
| Natural Resources Conservation | 1 |
| Nursing | 5 |
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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