by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began producing its annual Best Quality Schools rankings as a means to assist students in finding top-quality graduate colleges and universities that are invested in preparing their students for their future endeavors. 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., University of Missouri - St Louis landed the #331 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Missouri, UMSL came in at #9.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, UMSL came in at #411.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Missouri, UMSL came in at #13.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 67.6% of the total graduate students at UMSL are women and 32.4% are men.
Of all the graduate students at UMSL, around 24.0% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 6.4% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $12,528 | $30,756 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from UMSL enter careers with an average starting salary of $52,396. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 10% lower than the national average of $58,425.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from UMSL, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $76,569. That's about 2% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of University of Missouri - St Louis.
Contact details for UMSL are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One University Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63121-4400 |
| Phone: | 314-516-5000 |
| Website: | https://www.umsl.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/UMSL.edu |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/umsl |
About 67.8% of the graduate students at University of Missouri - St Louis took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 38.2% 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 |
|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 4 |
| Business Administration & Management | 12 |
| Chemistry | 5 |
| Criminology | 3 |
| General Biology | 2 |
| General Education | 45 |
| General Psychology | 8 |
| Nursing | 41 |
| Optometry | 47 |
| Physics | 1 |
| Political Science & Government | 4 |
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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