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.
Columbia University in the City of New York landed the #13 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. This means that the school is among the Top 5% of the nation when it comes to overall quality. As a result, Columbia is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in New York, Columbia came in at #1.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Columbia came in at #19. This means that the school is among the Top 5% of the nation when it comes to overall quality. Because of its high ranking, Columbia won the Best Doctorate Schools badge this year.
In addition, Columbia took the #2 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in New York.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 55.0% of the total graduate students at Columbia are women and 45.0% are men.
About 24.5% 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 41.1% 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 | $50,496 | $50,496 |
| Fees | $2,428 | $2,428 |
Master's degree recipients from Columbia earn an average salary of $75,670 during the early years of their career. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 30% higher than the national average of $58,425.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from Columbia, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $102,938. That's about 37% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Contact details for Columbia are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | West 116 St And Broadway, New York, NY 10027 |
| Phone: | 212-854-1754 |
| Website: | www.columbia.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/columbia |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/columbia |
Around 28.4% of Columbia graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 5.9% 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.
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.