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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Rivier University landed the #948 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, Rivier took the #7 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in New Hampshire.
Women make up 80.2% of the total graduate student body at Rivier while men make you 19.8%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 21.4% of the graduate students who attend Rivier are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. 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 | $11,880 | $11,880 |
| Fees | $315 | $315 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Rivier enter careers with an average starting salary of $60,094. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 3% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Rivier University.
Contact details for Rivier are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 420 South Main St, Nashua, NH 03060 |
| Phone: | 603-888-1311 |
| Website: | www.rivier.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.rivier.edu/about.aspx?id=190 |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/RivUniversity |
About 75.7% of the graduate students at Rivier University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 53.9% 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 | 2 |
| Educational Administration | 2 |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 4 |
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.