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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., University of California - Santa Cruz landed the #174 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in California, UC Santa Cruz came in at #28.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and UC Santa Cruz took the #138 spot on the list.
In addition, UC Santa Cruz took the #21 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in California.
Women make up 46.7% of the total graduate student body at UC Santa Cruz while men make you 53.3%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 29.0% of the graduate students who attend UC Santa Cruz are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at UC Santa Cruz. Around 27.3% 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 | $11,442 | $26,544 |
| Fees | $2,453 | $2,453 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from UC Santa Cruz enter careers with an average starting salary of $53,511. 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.
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Contact details for UC Santa Cruz are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1011 |
| Phone: | 831-459-0111 |
| Website: | www.ucsc.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/ucsantacruz |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/ucsc |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 28.2% of the graduate students at UC Santa Cruz took at least one online course. Roughly 2.4% 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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