by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual produces its Best Quality Schools rankings on a yearly basis to recognize those graduate schools that provide an excellent educational experience and are dedicated to helping their students succeed. 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., Shenandoah University landed the #273 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
Shenandoah also ranked #7 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Virginia.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and Shenandoah took the #104 spot on the list.
Shenandoah also ranked #3 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Virginia.
The total graduate student population at Shenandoah is made up of 74.7% women and 25.3% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 15.3% of the graduate student population at Shenandoah. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 2.5% of graduate students hail from another country. 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 | $22,080 | $22,080 |
| Fees | $1,350 | $1,350 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Shenandoah is $66,191. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 13% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from Shenandoah earn an average salary of $92,214 during the early years of their career. That's about 23% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Shenandoah University.
Contact details for Shenandoah are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1460 University Dr, Winchester, VA 22601-5195 |
| Phone: | 540-665-4500 |
| Website: | www.su.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/ShenandoahUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/shenandoahu |
In 2020-2021, 50.6% of the graduate students at Shenandoah University took at least one class online. For that same period, 34.8% 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 |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 1 |
| Educational Administration | 6 |
| Music | 11 |
| Nursing | 9 |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 159 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 97 |
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.
References
More about our data sources and methodologies.