by our College Data Analytics TeamThe goal of College Factual's yearly Best Quality Schools rankings is to help students find graduate schools that provide excellent learning environments that are a great fit for them. 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., Simmons University landed the #54 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. This rank is quite an honor since it puts the school in the Top 5% of the country for overall quality. Simmons received this year's Best Master's Schools badge for its high ranking.
In addition, Simmons took the #7 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Simmons came in at #122.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Massachusetts, Simmons came in at #10.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 88.8% of the total graduate students at Simmons are women and 11.2% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 21.6% of the graduate student population at Simmons. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 0.8% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $21,384 | $21,384 |
| Fees | $162 | $162 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at Simmons is $60,452. That's about 3% higher than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Doctorate degree recipients from Simmons earn an average salary of $69,105 during the early years of their career. That's about 8% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Simmons University.
Contact details for Simmons are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115-5898 |
| Phone: | 617-521-2000 |
| Website: | www.simmons.edu/ |
| Twitter: | http://www.twitter.com/simmonscollege |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 80.0% of the graduate students at Simmons took at least one online course. Roughly 63.3% 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 |
|---|---|
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 6 |
| Information Science | 2 |
| Library & Information Science | 1 |
| Nursing | 37 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 37 |
| Social Work | 3 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 2 |
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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