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.
University of California - Merced came in at #627 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
In addition, UC Merced took the #68 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in California.
UC Merced was ranked #365 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in California, UC Merced came in at #42.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 46.2% of the total graduate students at UC Merced are women and 53.8% are men.
About 34.2% of the graduate students who attend UC Merced are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at UC Merced. Around 35.7% of graduate students are international. 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 | $11,442 | $26,544 |
| Fees | $1,765 | $1,765 |
Get more details about the location of University of California - Merced.
Contact details for UC Merced are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343-5603 |
| Phone: | 209-228-4400 |
| Website: | ucmerced.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/ucmerced |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/ucmerced |
Around 3.0% of UC Merced graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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.
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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