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.
Prairie View A & M University came in at #938 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
PVAMU also ranked #48 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Texas.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, PVAMU came in at #616.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Texas, PVAMU came in at #34.
The total graduate student population at PVAMU is made up of 63.4% women and 36.6% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 82.8% of the graduate student population at PVAMU. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at PVAMU. Around 10.3% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $5,191 | $14,353 |
| Fees | $2,802 | $3,025 |
After obtaining their master's degree from PVAMU, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $60,681. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 4% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Prairie View A & M University.
Contact details for PVAMU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Fm 1098 Road & University Drive, Prairie View, TX 77446 |
| Phone: | 936-261-3311 |
| Website: | www.pvamu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://facebook.com/pvamu |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/pvamu |
About 56.7% of the graduate students at Prairie View A & M University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 31.4% 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 | 1 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 2 |
| Educational Administration | 8 |
| Electrical Engineering | 3 |
| Nursing | 3 |
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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