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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Southern Oregon University landed the #769 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Oregon, Southern Oregon University came in at #10.
The total graduate student population at Southern Oregon University is made up of 65.4% women and 34.6% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Southern Oregon University, around 23.0% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Southern Oregon University is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 1.4% 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 | $13,635 | $16,470 |
| Fees | $2,099 | $2,099 |
Master's degree recipients from Southern Oregon University earn an average salary of $51,848 during the early years of their career. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 11% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Southern Oregon University.
Contact details for Southern Oregon University are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1250 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland, OR 97520 |
| Phone: | 541-552-7672 |
| Website: | www.sou.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/sou.edu |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/@souashland |
Around 95.0% of Southern Oregon University graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 60.4% 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.
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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