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. Factors that go into these rankings include how much money students make after graduation, the number of FTE students per instructor, and how much debt students take on to attend the school.
Creighton University came in at #104 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, Creighton received one of this year's Best Master's Schools badges.
In addition, Creighton took the #2 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Nebraska.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and Creighton took the #65 spot on the list. This rank is quite an honor since it puts the school in the Top 10% of the country for overall quality. This makes Creighton a recipient of this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge.
In addition, Creighton took the #1 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Nebraska.
Women make up 60.5% of the total graduate student body at Creighton while men make you 39.5%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 22.7% of the graduate students who attend Creighton are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at Creighton. Around 2.6% of graduate students are international. The chart below shows the breakdown of graduate student demographics at the school. You can click on it for a more detailed view.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $17,190 | $17,190 |
| Fees | $1,906 | $1,906 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Creighton, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $65,909. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 13% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average early-career salary for doctorate degree recipients from Creighton is $84,902. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 13% higher than the national average of $75,260.
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Contact details for Creighton are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178 |
| Phone: | 402-280-2700 |
| Website: | https://www.creighton.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/creightonuniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/creighton |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 40.3% of the graduate students at Creighton took at least one online course. Approximately 38.4% 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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 17 |
| Dentistry | 83 |
| Educational Administration | 68 |
| General Biology | 2 |
| Law | 103 |
| Medicine | 164 |
| Nursing | 97 |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 126 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 198 |
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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