by our College Data Analytics TeamThe goal of College Factual's yearly Best Quality Schools rankings is to help students find graduate schools that provide excellent learning environments that are a great fit for them. 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, Merrimack College took the #716 spot.
Merrimack also ranked #37 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts.
The total graduate student population at Merrimack is made up of 71.9% women and 28.1% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Merrimack, around 15.8% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 2.3% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $31,488 | $31,488 |
| Fees | $956 | $956 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Merrimack enter careers with an average starting salary of $51,535. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 12% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Merrimack College.
Contact details for Merrimack are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 315 Turnpike St, North Andover, MA 01845 |
| Phone: | 978-837-5000 |
| Website: | https://www.merrimack.edu/ |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/merrimack |
About 76.7% of the graduate students at Merrimack College took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 61.0% 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.
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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