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.
Hofstra University came in at #304 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.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in New York, Hofstra came in at #17.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and Hofstra took the #518 spot on the list.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in New York, Hofstra came in at #34.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 62.4% of the total graduate students at Hofstra are women and 37.6% are men.
Of all the graduate students at Hofstra, around 31.8% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Hofstra is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 7.4% of the graduate student population. 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 | $27,180 | $27,180 |
| Fees | $1,000 | $1,000 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Hofstra, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $60,935. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 4% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Hofstra is $70,177. That's about 7% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Hofstra University.
Contact details for Hofstra are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 100 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549 |
| Phone: | 516-463-6600 |
| Website: | www.hofstra.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/hofstrauniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/hofstrau |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 25.6% of the graduate students at Hofstra took at least one online course. Approximately 10.1% 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 |
|---|---|
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 20 |
| Communication Sciences | 6 |
| Educational Administration | 11 |
| General Education | 7 |
| Law | 273 |
| Medicine | 97 |
| Molecular Medicine | 5 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 2 |
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.
References
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