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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Bowling Green State University - Main Campus landed the #464 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, BGSU took the #17 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Ohio.
BGSU was ranked #389 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Ohio, BGSU came in at #13.
The total graduate student population at BGSU is made up of 61.2% women and 38.8% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at BGSU, around 14.6% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 9.9% 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 | $8,017 | $14,009 |
| Fees | $1,814 | $1,814 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from BGSU enter careers with an average starting salary of $46,468. That's about 20% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Doctorate degree recipients from BGSU earn an average salary of $64,112 during the early years of their career. When comparing to other doctorate degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 15% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Bowling Green State University - Main Campus.
Contact details for BGSU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 220 Mcfall Ctr, Bowling Green, OH 43403 |
| Phone: | 418-372-5526 |
| Website: | www.bgsu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bowling-Green-OH/Bowling-Green-State-University/26573965003 |
| Twitter: | http://www.twitter.com/bgsu |
In 2020-2021, 59.3% of the graduate students at Bowling Green State University - Main Campus took at least one class online. For that same period, 44.8% 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.
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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