by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began producing its annual Best Quality Schools rankings as a means to assist students in finding top-quality graduate colleges and universities that are invested in preparing their students for their future endeavors. 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.
Shepherd University came in at #1034 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in West Virginia, Shepherd University came in at #9.
Women make up 77.0% of the total graduate student body at Shepherd University while men make you 23.0%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Shepherd University, around 17.2% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 1.8% 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 | $8,298 | $11,772 |
| Fees | $432 | $1,134 |
Master's degree recipients from Shepherd University earn an average salary of $45,312 during the early years of their career. That's about 22% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
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Contact details for Shepherd University are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 301 North King St, Shepherdstown, WV 25443 |
| Phone: | 304-876-5000 |
| Website: | www.shepherd.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/ShepherdUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/ShepherdU |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 89.2% of the graduate students at Shepherd University took at least one online course. For that same period, 74.3% 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.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 24 |
| Computer Software & Applications | 3 |
| General Education | 12 |
| Student Counseling | 11 |
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 | 3 |
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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