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.
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 Central Arkansas took the #696 spot.
In addition, UCA took the #5 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Arkansas.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and UCA took the #209 spot on the list.
In addition, UCA took the #1 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Arkansas.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 72.6% of the total graduate students at UCA are women and 27.4% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 16.9% of the graduate student population at UCA. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 3.9% 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 | $5,063 | $10,125 |
| Fees | $1,710 | $1,710 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from UCA enter careers with an average starting salary of $50,385. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 14% lower than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at UCA is $72,491. That's about 4% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of University of Central Arkansas.
Contact details for UCA are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 201 Donaghey Ave, Conway, AR 72035-0001 |
| Phone: | 501-450-5000 |
| Website: | www.uca.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/ucentralarkansas |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/ucabears |
About 58.3% of the graduate students at University of Central Arkansas took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 46.1% 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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 8 |
| Nursing | 2 |
| Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies | 5 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 107 |
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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