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.
Out of the 1149 colleges and universities analyzed in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, Sam Houston State University took the #487 spot.
SHSU also ranked #21 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Texas.
SHSU was ranked #431 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
SHSU also ranked #19 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Texas.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 68.8% of the total graduate students at SHSU are women and 31.2% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 41.3% of the graduate student population at SHSU. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 2.9% of graduate students hail from another country. 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 | $5,765 | $13,108 |
| Fees | $2,901 | $2,901 |
After obtaining their master's degree from SHSU, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $54,501. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 7% lower than the national average of $58,425.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from SHSU, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $68,691. That's about 9% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Sam Houston State University.
Contact details for SHSU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1806 Ave J, Huntsville, TX 77340 |
| Phone: | 936-294-1111 |
| Website: | www.shsu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/samhoustonstate |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/samhoustonstate |
Around 67.6% of SHSU graduate students took at least one course online 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 | 8 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 4 |
| Educational Administration | 22 |
| Instructional Media Design | 5 |
| Other Education | 8 |
| Student Counseling | 11 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 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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