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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Longwood University landed the #768 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, Longwood took the #15 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Virginia.
The total graduate student population at Longwood is made up of 78.9% women and 21.1% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 24.3% of the graduate students who attend Longwood are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 0.8% 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 | $6,480 | $17,910 |
| Fees | $2,646 | $2,646 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Longwood is $47,233. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 19% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Longwood University.
Contact details for Longwood are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 201 High St, Farmville, VA 23909 |
| Phone: | 434-395-2000 |
| Website: | www.longwood.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/LongwoodUniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/longwoodu |
In 2020-2021, 77.4% of the graduate students at Longwood University took at least one class online. Roughly 57.5% 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 |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 30 |
| Communication Sciences | 21 |
| General Education | 75 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 78 |
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.