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. 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.
Southern Methodist University landed the #68 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. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 10% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. As a result, SMU is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Texas, SMU came in at #4.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, SMU came in at #140.
SMU also ranked #6 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Texas.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 47.9% of the total graduate students at SMU are women and 52.1% are men.
Of all the graduate students at SMU, around 33.5% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. SMU is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 13.1% of the graduate student population. 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 | $30,672 | $30,672 |
| Fees | $5,130 | $5,130 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from SMU enter careers with an average starting salary of $76,382. That's good news for those graduates since it is 31% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average early-career salary for doctorate degree recipients from SMU is $81,633. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 8% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Southern Methodist University.
Contact details for SMU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 6425 Boaz St, Dallas, TX 75275-0221 |
| Phone: | 214-768-2000 |
| Website: | https://www.smu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://facebook.com/smudallas |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/smu |
About 20.7% of the graduate students at Southern Methodist University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 16.6% 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.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
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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