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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Michigan State University landed the #92 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 10% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. Michigan State received this year's Best Master's Schools badge for its high ranking.
Michigan State also ranked #2 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Michigan.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and Michigan State took the #69 spot on the list. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 15% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. Because of its high ranking, Michigan State won the Best Doctorate Schools badge this year.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Michigan, Michigan State came in at #2.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 57.0% of the total graduate students at Michigan State are women and 43.0% are men.
About 20.0% of the graduate students who attend Michigan State are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at Michigan State. Around 16.8% of graduate students are international. 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 | $19,714 | $38,638 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Michigan State is $60,340. That's good news for those graduates since it is 3% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Michigan State is $62,542. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 17% lower than the national average of $75,260.
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Contact details for Michigan State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Phone: | 517-355-1855 |
| Website: | https://www.msu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/spartans.msu |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/michiganstateu |
In 2020-2021, 37.3% of the graduate students at Michigan State University took at least one class online. For that same period, 21.2% 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.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
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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