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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., West Virginia University landed the #511 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
WVU also ranked #2 for Best Master's Degree Schools in West Virginia.
WVU was ranked #456 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, WVU took the #1 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in West Virginia.
Women make up 54.7% of the total graduate student body at WVU while men make you 45.3%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at WVU, around 13.1% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 11.5% 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 | $10,332 | $26,676 |
After obtaining their master's degree from WVU, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $53,429. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 9% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from WVU earn an average salary of $78,013 during the early years of their career. That's good news for those graduates since it is 4% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of West Virginia University.
Contact details for WVU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Po Box 6201, Morgantown, WV 26506 |
| Phone: | 304-293-0111 |
| Website: | www.wvu.edu/ |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 45.0% of the graduate students at WVU took at least one online course. Approximately 27.6% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
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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