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., Samford University landed the #281 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
Samford also ranked #5 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Alabama.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Samford came in at #57. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 10% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. Samford was awarded this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge for this accomplishment.
Samford also ranked #2 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Alabama.
The total graduate student population at Samford is made up of 65.8% women and 34.2% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Samford, around 20.1% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 0.7% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $20,935 | $20,935 |
| Fees | $640 | $640 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Samford is $58,758. That's on par with the nationwide average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Samford is $80,466. That's about 7% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Samford University.
Contact details for Samford are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229-2240 |
| Phone: | 205-726-2011 |
| Website: | www.samford.edu/ |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/SamfordU |
In 2020-2021, 37.6% of the graduate students at Samford University took at least one class online. Roughly 16.1% 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 | 46 |
| Law | 132 |
| Medical Illustration & Informatics | 2 |
| Nursing | 129 |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 125 |
| Public Health | 1 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 35 |
| Theological & Ministerial Studies | 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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