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.
William & Mary landed the #173 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.
William & Mary also ranked #4 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Virginia.
William & Mary was ranked #265 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, William & Mary took the #9 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Virginia.
The total graduate student population at William & Mary is made up of 53.1% women and 46.9% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at William & Mary, around 21.1% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. William & Mary is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 9.1% of the graduate student population. 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 | $10,516 | $28,305 |
| Fees | $6,102 | $6,673 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from William & Mary is $59,000. That's on par with the nationwide average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from William & Mary enter careers with an average starting salary of $75,186. That's on par with the nationwide average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of William & Mary.
Contact details for William & Mary are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 200 Richmond Road, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 |
| Phone: | 757-221-4000 |
| Website: | https://www.wm.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/williamandmary |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/williamandmary |
About 51.1% of the graduate students at William & Mary took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 35.2% 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 |
|---|---|
| Anthropology | 2 |
| Area Studies | 7 |
| Biological & Physical Science | 2 |
| Computer Information Systems | 11 |
| Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology | 9 |
| Educational Administration | 16 |
| History | 2 |
| Law | 180 |
| Physics | 6 |
| Student Counseling | 5 |
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.
References
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