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.
Clarkson University came in at #410 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 New York, Clarkson came in at #27.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and Clarkson took the #467 spot on the list.
In addition, Clarkson took the #30 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in New York.
Women make up 45.1% of the total graduate student body at Clarkson while men make you 54.9%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 18.5% of the graduate student population at Clarkson. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 16.4% 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 | $35,712 | $35,712 |
| Fees | $760 | $760 |
Master's degree recipients from Clarkson earn an average salary of $84,187 during the early years of their career. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 44% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from Clarkson earn an average salary of $62,617 during the early years of their career. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 17% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Clarkson University.
Contact details for Clarkson are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 8 Clarkson Ave, Potsdam, NY 13699 |
| Phone: | 315-268-6400 |
| Website: | https://www.clarkson.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/ClarksonUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/ClarksonUniv |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 37.6% of the graduate students at Clarkson took at least one online course. Approximately 22.0% 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.
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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