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.
Buffalo State came in at #982 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in New York, Buffalo State came in at #74.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 72.5% of the total graduate students at Buffalo State are women and 27.5% are men.
Of all the graduate students at Buffalo State, around 23.9% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 1.9% of graduate students hail from another country. 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 | $11,310 | $23,100 |
| Fees | $942 | $942 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Buffalo State is $42,757. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 27% lower than the national average of $58,425.
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Contact details for Buffalo State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1300 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14222 |
| Phone: | 716-878-4000 |
| Website: | https://suny.buffalostate.edu/ |
In 2020-2021, 41.1% of the graduate students at Buffalo State took at least one class online. Roughly 25.0% 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.
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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