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.
Columbia College Chicago came in at #483 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 Illinois, Columbia came in at #23.
The total graduate student population at Columbia is made up of 63.0% women and 37.0% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 33.0% of the graduate students who attend Columbia are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 23.3% 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 | $1,174 | $1,174 |
| Fees | $1,176 | $1,176 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Columbia is $34,835. That's about 40% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Columbia College Chicago.
Contact details for Columbia are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 600 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605-1996 |
| Phone: | 312-369-1000 |
| Website: | www.colum.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/columbiacollegechicago |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/columbiachi |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 4.1% of the graduate students at Columbia took at least one online course.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Arts & Media Management | 6 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 10 |
| Drama & Theater Arts | 7 |
| Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 13 |
| Fine & Studio Arts | 6 |
| Movement & Mind-Body Therapies | 3 |
| Music | 10 |
| Writing Studies | 19 |
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
More about our data sources and methodologies.