by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual produces its Best Quality Schools rankings on a yearly basis to recognize those graduate schools that provide an excellent educational experience and are dedicated to helping their 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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Drake University landed the #184 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
Drake also ranked #3 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Iowa.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Drake came in at #347.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Iowa, Drake came in at #5.
Women make up 66.9% of the total graduate student body at Drake while men make you 33.1%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 12.8% of the graduate student population at Drake. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 1.4% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $11,738 | $11,738 |
| Fees | $250 | $250 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Drake, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $54,781. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 6% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from Drake enter careers with an average starting salary of $61,460. That's about 18% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Drake University.
Contact details for Drake are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2507 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50311-4505 |
| Phone: | 515-271-2011 |
| Website: | www.drake.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/DrakeUniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/drakeuniversity |
About 41.0% of the graduate students at Drake University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 22.8% 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 | 19 |
| Law | 100 |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 94 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 44 |
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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