by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping students succeed. 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.
Shorter University landed the #1052 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Georgia, Shorter came in at #22.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 50.0% of the total graduate students at Shorter are women and 50.0% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 31.7% of the graduate student population at Shorter. 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 | $12,600 | $12,600 |
| Fees | $200 | $200 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Shorter is $56,946. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 3% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Shorter University.
Contact details for Shorter are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 315 Shorter Ave, Rome, GA 30165 |
| Phone: | 706-291-2121 |
| Website: | https://www.shorter.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/shorteru |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/shorteruniv |
Around 100.0% of Shorter graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 99.2% 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 |
|---|---|
| Accounting | 11 |
| Business Administration & Management | 55 |
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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