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, Northeastern Illinois University took the #914 spot.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Illinois, Northeastern Illinois University came in at #35.
Women make up 68.6% of the total graduate student body at Northeastern Illinois University while men make you 31.4%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Northeastern Illinois University, around 42.9% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 3.5% 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 | $7,947 | $15,894 |
| Fees | $1,481 | $1,481 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Northeastern Illinois University, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $50,888. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 13% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Northeastern Illinois University.
Contact details for Northeastern Illinois University are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5500 N Saint Louis Ave, Chicago, IL 60625-4699 |
| Phone: | 773-583-4050 |
| Website: | www.neiu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/NEIUlife |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/NEIUlife |
In 2020-2021, 81.1% of the graduate students at Northeastern Illinois University took at least one class online. For that same period, 60.6% 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.
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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