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. Factors that go into these rankings include how much money students make after graduation, the number of FTE students per instructor, and how much debt students take on to attend the school.
Benedictine University came in at #271 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
Benedictine U also ranked #15 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Illinois.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and Benedictine U took the #123 spot on the list.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Illinois, Benedictine U came in at #6.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 71.7% of the total graduate students at Benedictine U are women and 28.3% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 25.5% of the graduate student population at Benedictine U. Benedictine U is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 1.1% of the graduate student population. The chart below shows the breakdown of graduate student demographics at the school. You can click on it for a more detailed view.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $18,530 | $18,530 |
| Fees | $1,110 | $1,110 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Benedictine U, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $57,286. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 2% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from Benedictine U earn an average salary of $81,524 during the early years of their career. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 8% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Benedictine University.
Contact details for Benedictine U are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5700 College Rd, Lisle, IL 60532-0900 |
| Phone: | 630-829-6000 |
| Website: | https://ben.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/BenedictineUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/BenU1887 |
In 2020-2021, 93.6% of the graduate students at Benedictine University took at least one class online. Approximately 85.7% 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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Educational Administration | 4 |
| Human Resource Management | 25 |
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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