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. 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.
Lehigh University came in at #117 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. This places the school in the Top 15% of the country for overall quality. For this achievement, Lehigh received one of this year's Best Master's Schools badges.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania, Lehigh came in at #7.
Lehigh was ranked #59 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking. This places the school in the Top 10% of the country for overall quality. This makes Lehigh a recipient of this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania, Lehigh came in at #4.
The total graduate student population at Lehigh is made up of 46.4% women and 53.6% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Lehigh, around 15.4% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Lehigh is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 29.1% 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 | $27,000 | $27,000 |
| Fees | $130 | $130 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Lehigh enter careers with an average starting salary of $67,884. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 16% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Lehigh University.
Contact details for Lehigh are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 27 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA 18015 |
| Phone: | 610-758-3000 |
| Website: | www.lehigh.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/lehighu |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/lehighu |
In 2020-2021, 35.7% of the graduate students at Lehigh University took at least one class online. Roughly 26.2% 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.
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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