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.
Chapman University landed the #257 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.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in California, Chapman came in at #36.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Chapman came in at #259.
In addition, Chapman took the #33 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in California.
Women make up 61.2% of the total graduate student body at Chapman while men make you 38.8%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 51.8% of the graduate students who attend Chapman are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 9.2% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $37,538 | $37,538 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Chapman is $46,336. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 21% lower than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Chapman is $74,678. That's on par with the nationwide average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Chapman University.
Contact details for Chapman are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One University Dr., Orange, CA 92866 |
| Phone: | 714-997-6815 |
| Website: | https://www.chapman.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/ChapmanUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/chapmanu |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 4.6% of the graduate students at Chapman took at least one online course. For that same period, 0.4% 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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 6 |
| Computational Science | 9 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 2 |
| Educational Administration | 9 |
| Law | 145 |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 105 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 82 |
| Special Education | 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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