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. 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.
The University of Montana landed the #738 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.
In addition, UM took the #4 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Montana.
UM was ranked #283 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Montana, UM came in at #1.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 63.1% of the total graduate students at UM are women and 36.9% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 29.4% of the graduate student population at UM. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at UM. Around 5.5% of graduate students are international. 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 | $4,932 | $21,906 |
| Fees | $1,960 | $2,190 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from UM enter careers with an average starting salary of $47,292. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 19% lower than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at UM is $77,990. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 4% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of The University of Montana.
Contact details for UM are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Missoula, Montana, Missoula, MT 59812 |
| Phone: | 406-243-0211 |
| Website: | www.umt.edu/ |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/umontana |
In 2020-2021, 29.8% of the graduate students at The University of Montana took at least one class online. Roughly 21.7% 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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More about our data sources and methodologies.