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. These rankings are based on components such as post-graduation earnings of students, accumulated student debt of graduates, how much in demand the school is, and faculty and student diversity.
Emporia State University landed the #472 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.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Kansas, ESU came in at #3.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 70.9% of the total graduate students at ESU are women and 29.1% are men.
About 13.3% of the graduate students who attend ESU are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. ESU is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 3.0% of the graduate student population. The following chart shows the distribution of racial-ethnic groups at the school. If you click on it, you'll find more detailed information.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $6,547 | $16,368 |
| Fees | $1,985 | $1,985 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from ESU enter careers with an average starting salary of $48,955. That's about 16% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Emporia State University.
Contact details for ESU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 Kellogg Circle, Emporia, KS 66801-5415 |
| Phone: | 620-341-1200 |
| Website: | www.emporia.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/emporiastateuniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/emporiastate |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 93.5% of the graduate students at ESU took at least one online course. Approximately 89.1% 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 |
|---|---|
| Library & Information Science | 3 |
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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More about our data sources and methodologies.