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., The University of Texas at Austin landed the #41 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 5% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. As a result, UT Austin is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
In addition, UT Austin took the #2 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Texas.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and UT Austin took the #45 spot on the list. This places the school in the Top 10% of the country for overall quality. This makes UT Austin a recipient of this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Texas, UT Austin came in at #3.
The total graduate student population at UT Austin is made up of 49.4% women and 50.6% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at UT Austin, around 28.0% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 24.7% of graduate students hail from another country. 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 | $12,050 | $22,944 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at UT Austin is $60,992. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 4% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at UT Austin is $73,129. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 3% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of The University of Texas at Austin.
Contact details for UT Austin are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78705 |
| Phone: | 512-471-3434 |
| Website: | https://www.utexas.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/UTAustinTX |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/utaustin |
About 14.4% of the graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 0.3% 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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