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.
Missouri Western State University landed the #976 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
In addition, Missouri Western took the #26 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Missouri.
Women make up 63.9% of the total graduate student body at Missouri Western while men make you 36.1%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 10.3% of the graduate students who attend Missouri Western are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 6.7% 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 | $6,840 | $11,700 |
| Fees | $618 | $618 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Missouri Western is $36,805. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 37% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Missouri Western State University.
Contact details for Missouri Western are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 4525 Downs Dr, Saint Joseph, MO 64507 |
| Phone: | 816-271-4200 |
| Website: | https://www.missouriwestern.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/MissouriWestern |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/missouriwestern |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 82.4% of the graduate students at Missouri Western took at least one online course. Roughly 45.5% 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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