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.
Castleton University landed the #714 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
Castleton also ranked #8 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Vermont.
Women make up 74.1% of the total graduate student body at Castleton while men make you 25.9%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 4.9% of the graduate student population at Castleton. Castleton is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 0.9% 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 | $11,916 | $11,916 |
| Fees | $324 | $324 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Castleton enter careers with an average starting salary of $44,587. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 24% lower than the national average of $58,425.
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Contact details for Castleton are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 62 Alumni Dr, Castleton, VT 05735 |
| Phone: | 802-468-5611 |
| Website: | https://www.castleton.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/castletonedu |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/castletonedu |
Around 26.1% of Castleton graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 18.4% 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.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Accounting | 1 |
| Business Administration & Management | 12 |
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 4 |
| General Education | 8 |
| Health & Physical Education | 13 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 3 |
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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