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.
Clemson University came in at #101 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. This rank is quite an honor since it puts the school in the Top 10% of the country for overall quality. For this achievement, Clemson received one of this year's Best Master's Schools badges.
In addition, Clemson took the #1 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina.
Clemson was ranked #86 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking. This rank is quite an honor since it puts the school in the Top 15% of the country for overall quality. Clemson was awarded this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge for this accomplishment.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in South Carolina, Clemson came in at #1.
The total graduate student population at Clemson is made up of 52.3% women and 47.7% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 14.5% of the graduate student population at Clemson. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at Clemson. Around 21.3% of graduate students are international. 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 | $10,600 | $22,050 |
| Fees | $1,196 | $1,196 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Clemson enter careers with an average starting salary of $58,526. That's on par with the nationwide average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from Clemson enter careers with an average starting salary of $51,658. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 31% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Clemson University.
Contact details for Clemson are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 201 Sikes Hall, Clemson, SC 29634 |
| Phone: | 864-656-4636 |
| Website: | www.clemson.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/clemsonuniv |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/clemsonuniv |
In 2020-2021, 47.5% of the graduate students at Clemson University took at least one class online. Approximately 34.2% 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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