by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual produces its Best Quality Schools rankings on a yearly basis to recognize those graduate schools that provide an excellent educational experience and are dedicated to helping their students succeed. 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., New Jersey City University landed the #815 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
NJCU also ranked #21 for Best Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, NJCU came in at #277.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in New Jersey, NJCU came in at #10.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 74.6% of the total graduate students at NJCU are women and 25.4% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 52.0% of the graduate student population at NJCU. NJCU is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 2.5% of the graduate student population. 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 | $13,938 | $22,224 |
| Fees | $2,080 | $2,080 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from NJCU enter careers with an average starting salary of $55,711. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 5% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from NJCU earn an average salary of $80,211 during the early years of their career. That's about 7% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of New Jersey City University.
Contact details for NJCU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2039 Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07305 |
| Phone: | 201-200-2000 |
| Website: | www.njcu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Jersey-City-University/160201390681313 |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/njcuniversity |
About 83.3% of the graduate students at New Jersey City University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 74.8% 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 |
|---|---|
| Other Homeland Security | 1 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 12 |
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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