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. 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.
Out of a field of 1149 colleges and universities considered in the 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, Salem College landed the #902 spot.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina, Salem came in at #22.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 90.3% of the total graduate students at Salem are women and 9.7% are men.
About 33.3% of the graduate students who attend Salem are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $8,100 | $8,100 |
| Fees | $300 | $300 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Salem, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $46,313. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 21% lower than the national average of $58,425.
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Contact details for Salem are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 601 S Church St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101 |
| Phone: | 336-721-2600 |
| Website: | www.salem.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/SalemCollege |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/SalemCollege |
Around 100.0% of Salem graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 52.3% 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.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Music | 4 |
| Special Education | 5 |
| Student Counseling | 20 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 1 |
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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