by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. 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 West Florida landed the #594 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Florida, UWF came in at #14.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and UWF took the #269 spot on the list.
UWF also ranked #6 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Florida.
The total graduate student population at UWF is made up of 69.4% women and 30.6% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at UWF, around 31.8% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at UWF. Around 3.1% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $7,088 | $22,166 |
| Fees | $1,974 | $2,728 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from UWF enter careers with an average starting salary of $53,702. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 8% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of The University of West Florida.
Contact details for UWF are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 |
| Phone: | 850-474-2000 |
| Website: | uwf.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/WestFL |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/UWF |
About 92.9% of the graduate students at The University of West Florida took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 86.9% 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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Curriculum & Instruction | 21 |
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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