by our College Data Analytics TeamThe goal of College Factual's yearly Best Quality Schools rankings is to help students find graduate schools that provide excellent learning environments that are a great fit for them. 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., Northwestern University landed the #4 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. This rank is quite an honor since it puts the school in the Top 1% of the country for overall quality. As a result, Northwestern is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Illinois, Northwestern came in at #2.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Northwestern came in at #10. This rank is quite an honor since it puts the school in the Top 5% of the country for overall quality. Northwestern was awarded this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge for this accomplishment.
Northwestern also ranked #2 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Illinois.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 51.3% of the total graduate students at Northwestern are women and 48.7% are men.
Of all the graduate students at Northwestern, around 28.6% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at Northwestern. Around 20.2% 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 | $56,067 | $56,067 |
| Fees | $500 | $500 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Northwestern enter careers with an average starting salary of $80,937. That's good news for those graduates since it is 39% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Northwestern is $93,954. That's good news for those graduates since it is 25% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Northwestern University.
Contact details for Northwestern are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208 |
| Phone: | 847-491-3741 |
| Website: | www.northwestern.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/NorthwesternU |
| Twitter: | http://www.twitter.com/northwesternu |
In 2020-2021, 11.8% of the graduate students at Northwestern University took at least one class online. Roughly 11.8% 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.
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.
References
More about our data sources and methodologies.