by our College Data Analytics TeamThe goal of College Factual's yearly Best Quality Schools rankings is to help students find graduate schools that provide excellent learning environments that are a great fit for them. 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.
Charleston Southern University came in at #749 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
In addition, CSU took the #9 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and CSU took the #436 spot on the list.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in South Carolina, CSU came in at #4.
The total graduate student population at CSU is made up of 63.2% women and 36.8% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 31.0% of the graduate students who attend CSU are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 3.2% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $5,085 | $5,085 |
Master's degree recipients from CSU earn an average salary of $59,966 during the early years of their career. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 3% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Charleston Southern University.
Contact details for CSU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 9200 University Blvd, Charleston, SC 29406-9121 |
| Phone: | 843-863-7000 |
| Website: | https://www.charlestonsouthern.edu/ |
Around 57.5% of CSU graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 50.8% 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.
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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