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.
Out of the 1149 colleges and universities analyzed in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, Massachusetts Maritime Academy took the #660 spot.
In addition, Maritime took the #33 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts.
The total graduate student population at Maritime is made up of 28.3% women and 71.7% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Maritime, around 11.1% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 4.0% 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 | $2,710 | $2,710 |
| Fees | $17,274 | $17,274 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Maritime enter careers with an average starting salary of $83,327. That's good news for those graduates since it is 43% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Contact details for Maritime are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 101 Academy Dr, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532-1803 |
| Phone: | 508-830-5000 |
| Website: | https://www.maritime.edu/ |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 100.0% of the graduate students at Maritime took all of their courses 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 | 9 |
| Engineering-Related Fields | 25 |
| Other Homeland Security | 16 |
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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