by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. 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, Metropolitan State University took the #591 spot.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota, Metro State came in at #19.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Metro State came in at #475.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Minnesota, Metro State came in at #13.
Women make up 57.1% of the total graduate student body at Metro State while men make you 42.9%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 36.9% of the graduate students who attend Metro State are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 6.8% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $9,495 | $9,495 |
| Fees | $742 | $742 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Metro State is $59,072. That's about 1% higher than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from Metro State enter careers with an average starting salary of $103,446. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 37% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Metropolitan State University.
Contact details for Metro State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 700 East Seventh Street, Saint Paul, MN 55106-5000 |
| Phone: | 651-793-1300 |
| Website: | www.metrostate.edu/ |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/Choose_Metro |
Around 59.7% of Metro State graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 23.7% 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 2 |
| Nursing | 14 |
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.