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. 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.
Saint Mary's College landed the #63 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking. This means that the school is among the Top 10% of the nation when it comes to overall quality. As a result, St. Mary's College is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
In addition, St. Mary's College took the #4 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Indiana.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, St. Mary's College came in at #222.
St. Mary's College also ranked #7 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Indiana.
The total graduate student population at St. Mary's College is made up of 88.8% women and 11.2% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 18.2% of the graduate students who attend St. Mary's College 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $28,252 | $28,252 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from St. Mary's College enter careers with an average starting salary of $59,752. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 2% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Saint Mary’s College.
Contact details for St. Mary's College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 133 Le Mans Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 |
| Phone: | 574-284-4000 |
| Website: | https://www.saintmarys.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/saintmaryscollege |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/saintmarys |
About 50.4% of the graduate students at Saint Mary's College took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 50.4% 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.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Communication Sciences | 28 |
| Data Science | 2 |
| Ethnic Studies | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Nursing | 9 |
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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