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 the 1149 colleges and universities analyzed in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs took the #719 spot.
UCCS also ranked #10 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Colorado.
UCCS was ranked #503 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 Colorado, UCCS came in at #9.
The total graduate student population at UCCS is made up of 58.8% women and 41.2% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at UCCS, around 26.0% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 4.3% 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 | $13,854 | $25,584 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from UCCS enter careers with an average starting salary of $55,869. That's about 4% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Get more details about the location of University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Contact details for UCCS are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Colorado Springs, CO 80918 |
| Phone: | 719-255-3000 |
| Website: | https://www.uccs.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/pages/UCCS/243117181362 |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/uccs |
In 2020-2021, 53.4% of the graduate students at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs took at least one class online. Roughly 39.5% 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.
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 Assessment | 8 |
| General Engineering | 16 |
| General Psychology | 3 |
| Information Technology | 1 |
| Natural Sciences | 2 |
| Nursing | 9 |
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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