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.
Out of a field of 1149 colleges and universities considered in the 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, Virginia Commonwealth University landed the #324 spot.
In addition, VCU took the #9 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Virginia.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, VCU came in at #178.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Virginia, VCU came in at #4.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 64.5% of the total graduate students at VCU are women and 35.5% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 32.3% of the graduate student population at VCU. VCU is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 6.7% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $12,618 | $25,956 |
| Fees | $2,900 | $3,590 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from VCU enter careers with an average starting salary of $58,139. That's on par with the nationwide average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from VCU earn an average salary of $90,633 during the early years of their career. That's about 20% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Virginia Commonwealth University.
Contact details for VCU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 910 W Franklin St, Richmond, VA 23284-2512 |
| Phone: | 804-828-0100 |
| Website: | https://www.vcu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/virginiacommonwealthuniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/VCU |
About 55.6% of the graduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 18.3% 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.
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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