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. Factors that go into these rankings include how much money students make after graduation, the number of FTE students per instructor, and how much debt students take on to attend the school.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., University of Central Missouri landed the #531 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, UCM took the #15 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Missouri.
Women make up 65.9% of the total graduate student body at UCM while men make you 34.1%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 10.4% of the graduate student population at UCM. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at UCM. Around 23.3% of graduate students are international. The chart below shows the breakdown of graduate student demographics at the school. You can click on it for a more detailed view.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $7,836 | $15,672 |
| Fees | $1,320 | $1,320 |
After obtaining their master's degree from UCM, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $49,773. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 15% lower than the national average of $58,425.
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Contact details for UCM are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 108 W South Street, Warrensburg, MO 64093 |
| Phone: | 660-543-4111 |
| Website: | https://www.ucmo.edu/ |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/UCentralMO |
Around 41.8% of UCM graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 23.0% 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.
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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