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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley landed the #411 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Texas, UT Rio Grande Valley came in at #18.
UT Rio Grande Valley was ranked #524 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, UT Rio Grande Valley took the #26 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Texas.
The total graduate student population at UT Rio Grande Valley is made up of 63.8% women and 36.2% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at UT Rio Grande Valley, around 84.7% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 5.4% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $7,002 | $14,346 |
| Fees | $1,331 | $1,331 |
Master's degree recipients from UT Rio Grande Valley earn an average salary of $55,282 during the early years of their career. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 5% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Contact details for UT Rio Grande Valley are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1201 W University Dr, Edinburg, TX 78539-2999 |
| Phone: | 956-665-2011 |
| Website: | www.utrgv.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/utpanamerican |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/utpa |
Around 72.0% of UT Rio Grande Valley graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 49.8% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 9 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 12 |
| Educational Administration | 7 |
| Medicine | 51 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 2 |
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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