by our College Data Analytics TeamThe goal of College Factual's yearly Best Quality Schools rankings is to help students find graduate schools that provide excellent learning environments that are a great fit for them. 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.
Out of the 1149 colleges and universities analyzed in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, University of California - San Diego took the #42 spot. This rank is quite an honor since it puts the school in the Top 5% of the country for overall quality. For this achievement, UCSD received one of this year's Best Master's Schools badges.
UCSD also ranked #7 for Best Master's Degree Schools in California.
UCSD was ranked #51 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking. This means that the school is among the Top 10% of the nation when it comes to overall quality. UCSD was awarded this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge for this accomplishment.
In addition, UCSD took the #10 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in California.
The total graduate student population at UCSD is made up of 42.2% women and 57.8% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 29.8% of the graduate student population at UCSD. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 39.5% 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 | $11,442 | $26,544 |
| Fees | $2,122 | $2,122 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at UCSD is $79,387. That's good news for those graduates since it is 36% higher than the national average of $58,425.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from UCSD, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $61,698. That's about 18% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of University of California - San Diego.
Contact details for UCSD are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093 |
| Phone: | 858-534-2230 |
| Website: | www.ucsd.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/UCSanDiegoLife |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/ucsandiego |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 22.2% of the graduate students at UCSD took at least one online course. For that same period, 1.5% of grad students took all of their classes 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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