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. 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, Capella University took the #166 spot. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 15% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. Capella University received this year's Best Master's Schools badge for its high ranking.
In addition, Capella University took the #4 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Capella University came in at #102.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Minnesota, Capella University came in at #3.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 82.4% of the total graduate students at Capella University are women and 17.6% are men.
About 45.4% of the graduate students who attend Capella University are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at Capella University. Around 0.6% 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 | $14,784 | $14,784 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Capella University enter careers with an average starting salary of $55,786. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 5% lower than the national average of $58,425.
The average early-career salary for doctorate degree recipients from Capella University is $77,333. That's good news for those graduates since it is 3% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Capella University.
Contact details for Capella University are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 225 South 6Th Street, 9Th Floor, Minneapolis, MN 55402-3389 |
| Phone: | 866-808-4080 |
| Website: | www.capella.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/CapellaUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/CapellaU |
In 2020-2021, 100.0% of the graduate students at Capella University 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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