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. Factors that go into these rankings include how much money students make after graduation, the number of FTE students per instructor, and how much debt students take on to attend the school.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Saint Joseph's University landed the #122 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. This means that the school is among the Top 15% of the nation when it comes to overall quality. As a result, St. Joe's is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
St. Joe's also ranked #8 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania.
St. Joe's was ranked #168 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, St. Joe's took the #14 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 66.0% of the total graduate students at St. Joe's are women and 34.0% are men.
Of all the graduate students at St. Joe's, around 25.0% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. St. Joe's is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 5.8% of the graduate student population. The chart below shows the breakdown of graduate student demographics at the school. You can click on it for a more detailed view.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $18,144 | $18,144 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from St. Joe's enter careers with an average starting salary of $75,235. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 29% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Saint Joseph’s University.
Contact details for St. Joe's are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19131-1395 |
| Phone: | 610-660-1000 |
| Website: | https://www.sju.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/saintjosephsuniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/saintjosephs |
Around 91.7% of St. Joe's graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 85.4% 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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Educational Administration | 10 |
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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