by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping 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.
Radford University came in at #640 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.
In addition, Radford took the #13 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Virginia.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Radford came in at #346.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Virginia, Radford came in at #12.
Women make up 86.4% of the total graduate student body at Radford while men make you 13.6%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Radford, around 9.3% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at Radford. Around 0.4% 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 | $8,915 | $17,441 |
| Fees | $3,620 | $4,067 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Radford is $57,575. That's about 1% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from Radford, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $69,901. That's about 7% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Radford University.
Contact details for Radford are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 801 East Main St., Radford, VA 24142 |
| Phone: | 540-831-5000 |
| Website: | https://www.radford.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/RadfordUniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/radfordu |
About 78.9% of the graduate students at Radford University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 71.3% 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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 3 |
| Nursing | 10 |
| Public Health | 10 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 28 |
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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More about our data sources and methodologies.