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.
Stanford University landed the #2 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 1% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. For this achievement, Stanford received one of this year's Best Master's Schools badges.
Stanford also ranked #1 for Best Master's Degree Schools in California.
Stanford was ranked #2 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 1% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. This makes Stanford a recipient of this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge.
Stanford also ranked #1 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in California.
The total graduate student population at Stanford is made up of 42.4% women and 57.6% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 31.8% of the graduate students who attend Stanford are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Stanford is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 32.6% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $54,315 | $54,315 |
| Fees | $696 | $696 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Stanford enter careers with an average starting salary of $101,186. That's good news for those graduates since it is 73% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Stanford is $98,295. That's about 31% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Stanford University.
Contact details for Stanford are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Phone: | 650-723-2300 |
| Website: | www.stanford.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/stanford |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/stanford |
About 8.6% of the graduate students at Stanford University took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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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