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, Old Dominion University took the #422 spot.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Virginia, Old Dominion came in at #10.
Old Dominion was ranked #284 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Virginia, Old Dominion came in at #10.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 59.5% of the total graduate students at Old Dominion are women and 40.5% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 32.1% of the graduate student population at Old Dominion. Old Dominion is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 8.5% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $10,207 | $29,851 |
| Fees | $3,017 | $3,437 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Old Dominion is $62,301. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 7% higher than the national average of $58,425.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from Old Dominion, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $74,043. When comparing to other doctorate degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 2% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Old Dominion University.
Contact details for Old Dominion are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5115 Hampton Blvd, Norfolk, VA 23529 |
| Phone: | 757-683-3000 |
| Website: | www.odu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/Old.Dominion.University |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/OldDominionUniv |
About 71.9% of the graduate students at Old Dominion University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 57.1% 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.
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.
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