by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual produces its Best Quality Schools rankings on a yearly basis to recognize those graduate schools that provide an excellent educational experience and are dedicated to helping their 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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Boston University landed the #47 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. This places the school in the Top 5% of the country for overall quality. Boston U received this year's Best Master's Schools badge for its high ranking.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts, Boston U came in at #6.
Boston U was ranked #53 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking. So, the school is among the best in the nation with its Top 10% ranking. Boston U was awarded this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge for this accomplishment.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Massachusetts, Boston U came in at #6.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 58.0% of the total graduate students at Boston U are women and 42.0% are men.
Of all the graduate students at Boston U, around 23.8% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 28.2% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $58,560 | $58,560 |
| Fees | $858 | $858 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Boston U is $61,807. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 6% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from Boston U earn an average salary of $71,439 during the early years of their career. That's about 5% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Boston University.
Contact details for Boston U are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One Silber Way, Boston, MA 02215 |
| Phone: | 617-353-2000 |
| Website: | www.bu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/BostonUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/BU_Tweets |
In 2020-2021, 28.6% of the graduate students at Boston University took at least one class online. Roughly 21.8% 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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