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.
University of Houston - Downtown landed the #425 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
In addition, UH Downtown took the #20 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Texas.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 59.4% of the total graduate students at UH Downtown are women and 40.6% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 77.3% of the graduate student population at UH Downtown. UH Downtown is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 3.9% of the graduate student population. 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $8,073 | $14,535 |
| Fees | $1,456 | $1,456 |
After obtaining their master's degree from UH Downtown, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $60,849. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 4% higher than the national average of $58,425.
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Contact details for UH Downtown are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002-1014 |
| Phone: | 713-221-8000 |
| Website: | www.uhd.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/Uhdowntown |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/#!/UHDowntown |
Around 79.1% of UH Downtown graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 64.0% 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.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 421 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 40 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 13 |
| Data Analytics | 65 |
| Writing Studies | 4 |
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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