by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping students succeed. 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.
Clarke University came in at #870 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.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Iowa, Clarke came in at #17.
Clarke was ranked #557 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Iowa, Clarke came in at #8.
The total graduate student population at Clarke is made up of 74.5% women and 25.5% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Clarke, around 5.6% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. 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 | $13,847 | $13,847 |
| Fees | $300 | $300 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Clarke is $42,563. That's about 27% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Clarke is $80,036. That's about 6% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Clarke University.
Contact details for Clarke are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1550 Clarke Dr, Dubuque, IA 52001-3198 |
| Phone: | 563-588-6300 |
| Website: | www.clarke.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/clarkeuniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/clarkeu |
In 2020-2021, 40.9% of the graduate students at Clarke University took at least one class online. Approximately 17.0% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| General Education | 12 |
| Social Work | 23 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Nursing | 12 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 30 |
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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