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. 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 Illinois at Springfield took the #692 spot.
UIS also ranked #32 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Illinois.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and UIS took the #311 spot on the list.
UIS also ranked #17 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Illinois.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 52.2% of the total graduate students at UIS are women and 47.8% are men.
Of all the graduate students at UIS, around 23.9% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 13.0% 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 | $8,375 | $14,021 |
| Fees | $2,736 | $2,736 |
Master's degree recipients from UIS earn an average salary of $53,877 during the early years of their career. 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.
Get more details about the location of University of Illinois at Springfield.
Contact details for UIS are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One University Plaza, Springfield, IL 62703-5407 |
| Phone: | 217-206-6600 |
| Website: | www.uis.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/uis.edu |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/UISedu |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 89.2% of the graduate students at UIS took at least one online course. For that same period, 73.3% 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 |
|---|---|
| Public Administration | 8 |
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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