by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping students succeed. 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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Stony Brook University landed the #246 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, SUNY Stony Brook took the #14 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in New York.
SUNY Stony Brook was ranked #270 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, SUNY Stony Brook took the #14 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in New York.
The total graduate student population at SUNY Stony Brook is made up of 58.3% women and 41.7% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 27.3% of the graduate student population at SUNY Stony Brook. SUNY Stony Brook is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 19.7% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $11,310 | $23,100 |
| Fees | $2,528 | $2,528 |
After obtaining their master's degree from SUNY Stony Brook, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $62,914. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 8% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from SUNY Stony Brook enter careers with an average starting salary of $71,108. When comparing to other doctorate degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 6% lower than the national average of $75,260.
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Contact details for SUNY Stony Brook are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 310 Administration Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794-0701 |
| Phone: | 631-632-6000 |
| Website: | https://www.stonybrook.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/stonybrooku |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/stonybrooku |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 46.6% of the graduate students at SUNY Stony Brook took at least one online course. Roughly 22.0% 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.
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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