by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping 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 Mary Washington landed the #908 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Virginia, UMW came in at #19.
The total graduate student population at UMW is made up of 70.0% women and 30.0% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 18.7% of the graduate students who attend UMW are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. UMW is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 1.3% 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 | $8,676 | $18,396 |
| Fees | $2,712 | $2,712 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at UMW is $56,164. That's about 4% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
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Contact details for UMW are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1301 College Ave, Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5300 |
| Phone: | 540-654-1000 |
| Website: | https://www.umw.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/pages/University-of-Mary-Washington/63057846659 |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/UMaryWash |
Around 27.7% of UMW graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 3.7% 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 | 20 |
| General Education | 75 |
| General English Literature | 20 |
| Geography & Cartography | 13 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 38 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Mathematics | 8 |
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.
References
More about our data sources and methodologies.