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.
National University landed the #106 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. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 10% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. For this achievement, National University received one of this year's Best Master's Schools badges.
In addition, National University took the #17 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in California.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and National University took the #206 spot on the list.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in California, National University came in at #34.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 68.9% of the total graduate students at National University are women and 31.1% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 46.1% of the graduate student population at National University. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 0.7% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $15,480 | $15,480 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at National University is $61,388. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 5% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of National University.
Contact details for National University are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 9388 Lightwave Ave, San Diego, CA 92123 |
| Phone: | 800-628-8648 |
| Website: | www.nu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/nationaluniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/natuniv |
Around 88.1% of National University graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 75.5% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
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 |
|---|---|
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 4 |
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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