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., Sonoma State University landed the #807 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in California, SSU came in at #77.
The total graduate student population at SSU is made up of 71.7% women and 28.3% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at SSU, around 30.5% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. SSU is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 3.0% of the graduate student population. 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 | $7,176 | $16,680 |
| Fees | $2,246 | $2,246 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at SSU is $80,913. That's good news for those graduates since it is 38% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Sonoma State University.
Contact details for SSU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609 |
| Phone: | 707-664-2880 |
| Website: | https://sonoma.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/sonomastateuniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/ssu_1961 |
Around 62.6% of SSU graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 9.7% 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.
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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