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. 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., Fairfield University landed the #220 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
Fairfield U also ranked #3 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Connecticut.
Fairfield U was ranked #77 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking. This rank is quite an honor since it puts the school in the Top 15% of the country for overall quality. Because of its high ranking, Fairfield U won the Best Doctorate Schools badge this year.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Connecticut, Fairfield U came in at #2.
Women make up 68.9% of the total graduate student body at Fairfield U while men make you 31.1%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 23.0% of the graduate students who attend Fairfield U are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 7.4% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $19,383 | $19,383 |
| Fees | $115 | $115 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Fairfield U, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $66,722. That's good news for those graduates since it is 14% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Fairfield U is $138,401. That's about 84% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Fairfield University.
Contact details for Fairfield U are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1073 N Benson Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824-5195 |
| Phone: | 203-254-4000 |
| Website: | fairfield.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/FairfieldUniversity?utm_source=fairfieldsite&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=int_footer_social%3B |
About 47.2% of the graduate students at Fairfield University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 19.7% 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 |
|---|---|
| Nursing | 38 |
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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