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.
Out of the 1149 colleges and universities analyzed in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, California State University - Long Beach took the #269 spot.
CSULB also ranked #38 for Best Master's Degree Schools in California.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, CSULB came in at #287.
CSULB also ranked #35 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in California.
Women make up 63.4% of the total graduate student body at CSULB while men make you 36.6%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at CSULB, around 64.7% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at CSULB. Around 6.7% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $7,176 | $16,680 |
| Fees | $1,104 | $1,104 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from CSULB is $60,464. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 3% higher than the national average of $58,425.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from CSULB, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $83,889. That's good news for those graduates since it is 11% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of California State University - Long Beach.
Contact details for CSULB are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90840-0115 |
| Phone: | 562-985-4111 |
| Website: | www.csulb.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/csulb |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/csulb |
About 55.1% of the graduate students at California State University - Long Beach took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 18.3% 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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Educational Administration | 16 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 33 |
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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