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.
Colorado Mesa University came in at #954 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.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Colorado, Colorado Mesa came in at #14.
The total graduate student population at Colorado Mesa is made up of 65.5% women and 34.5% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 18.8% of the graduate students who attend Colorado Mesa are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 1.2% 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 | $9,270 | $13,905 |
| Fees | $630 | $630 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Colorado Mesa is $42,913. That's about 27% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Colorado Mesa University.
Contact details for Colorado Mesa are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1100 North Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501-3122 |
| Phone: | 970-248-1020 |
| Website: | www.coloradomesa.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorado-Mesa-University/165068093548114 |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/ColoradoMesaU |
About 71.3% of the graduate students at Colorado Mesa University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 54.9% of grad students took all of their classes 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 | 17 |
| Applied Mathematics | 2 |
| Business Administration & Management | 8 |
| General Education | 17 |
| Health & Physical Education | 12 |
| Nursing | 1 |
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Nursing | 2 |
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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