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.
Lock Haven University landed the #556 spot in College Factual's 2023 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1151 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
LHU also ranked #39 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 69.3% of the total graduate students at LHU are women and 30.7% are men.
Of all the graduate students at LHU, around 14.4% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. 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 | $9,288 | $13,932 |
| Fees | $3,231 | $3,447 |
Master's degree recipients from LHU earn an average salary of $59,034 during the early years of their career. That's good news for those graduates since it is 1% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Lock Haven University.
Contact details for LHU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 401 North Fairview Street, Lock Haven, PA 17745-2390 |
| Phone: | 570-484-2011 |
| Website: | www.lockhaven.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/LockHavenUniversityofPA?ref=hl |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/LockHavenUniv |
During the 2019-2020 academic year, 97.5% of the graduate students at LHU took at least one online course. Roughly 77.5% 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.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Allied Health Professions | 32 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 8 |
| Health & Physical Education | 45 |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 3 |
| Mental & Social Health Services | 24 |
| Public Health | 7 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 8 |
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
More about our data sources and methodologies.