by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began producing its annual Best Quality Schools rankings as a means to assist students in finding top-quality graduate colleges and universities that are invested in preparing their students for their future endeavors. 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, Catholic University of America took the #167 spot. This places the school in the Top 15% of the country for overall quality. As a result, CUA is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
CUA also ranked #5 for Best Master's Degree Schools in District of Columbia.
CUA was ranked #452 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, CUA took the #5 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in District of Columbia.
Women make up 54.1% of the total graduate student body at CUA while men make you 45.9%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 26.4% of the graduate students who attend CUA are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 15.0% 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 | $50,670 | $50,670 |
| Fees | $960 | $960 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at CUA is $71,181. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 22% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average early-career salary for doctorate degree recipients from CUA is $62,206. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 17% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Catholic University of America.
Contact details for CUA are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 620 Michigan Avenue, Ne, Washington, DC 20064 |
| Phone: | 202-319-5000 |
| Website: | https://www.catholic.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/CatholicUniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/CatholicUniv |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 32.1% of the graduate students at CUA took at least one online course. For that same period, 20.2% 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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