by our College Data Analytics TeamThe goal of College Factual's yearly Best Quality Schools rankings is to help students find graduate schools that provide excellent learning environments that are a great fit for them. 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., Belhaven University landed the #656 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Mississippi, Belhaven came in at #5.
Belhaven was ranked #612 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
Belhaven also ranked #6 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Mississippi.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 74.8% of the total graduate students at Belhaven are women and 25.2% are men.
About 78.9% of the graduate students who attend Belhaven are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at Belhaven. Around 0.2% of graduate students are international. 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 | $10,530 | $10,530 |
| Fees | $450 | $450 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Belhaven enter careers with an average starting salary of $41,914. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 28% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Belhaven University.
Contact details for Belhaven are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1500 Peachtree St, Jackson, MS 39202 |
| Phone: | 601-968-5940 |
| Website: | https://www.belhaven.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/belhavenuniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/belhavenu |
In 2020-2021, 83.9% of the graduate students at Belhaven University took at least one class online. For that same period, 80.8% 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.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 560 |
| Dance | 2 |
| Educational Administration | 86 |
| General Education | 98 |
| Health & Medical Administrative Services | 50 |
| Health & Physical Education | 18 |
| Public Administration | 46 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 25 |
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 Administration | 32 |
| Health & Physical Education | 6 |
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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