by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began producing its annual Best Quality Schools rankings as a means to assist students in finding top-quality graduate colleges and universities that are invested in preparing their students for their future endeavors. 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.
Delaware State University landed the #808 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.
Del State also ranked #3 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Delaware.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Del State came in at #560.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 71.7% of the total graduate students at Del State are women and 28.3% are men.
About 66.8% of the graduate students who attend Del State are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Del State is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 7.7% of the graduate student population. 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 | $5,160 | $11,376 |
| Fees | $350 | $350 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Del State, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $38,329. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 34% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from Del State earn an average salary of $77,024 during the early years of their career. That's good news for those graduates since it is 2% higher than the national average of $75,260.
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Contact details for Del State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1200 N. Dupont Highway, Dover, DE 19901 |
| Phone: | 302-857-6060 |
| Website: | www.desu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/DESUedu |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/DelStateUniv |
Around 47.6% of Del State graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 34.5% of all grad students took courses exclusively 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 |
|---|---|
| Educational Administration | 14 |
| Neurobiology & Neurosciences | 3 |
| Physics | 1 |
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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