by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. These rankings are based on components such as post-graduation earnings of students, accumulated student debt of graduates, how much in demand the school is, and faculty and student diversity.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., University of Kansas landed the #144 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 15% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. As a result, KU is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
KU also ranked #2 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Kansas.
KU was ranked #141 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, KU took the #2 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Kansas.
Women make up 57.1% of the total graduate student body at KU while men make you 42.9%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at KU, around 21.1% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. KU is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 11.8% of the graduate student population. The following chart shows the distribution of racial-ethnic groups at the school. If you click on it, you'll find more detailed information.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $9,989 | $23,951 |
| Fees | $1,056 | $1,056 |
After obtaining their master's degree from KU, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $61,100. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 5% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from KU enter careers with an average starting salary of $73,258. When comparing to other doctorate degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 3% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of University of Kansas.
Contact details for KU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Strong Hall, 1450 Jayhawk Blvd, Room 230, Lawrence, KS 66045 |
| Phone: | 785-864-2700 |
| Website: | https://ku.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/KU |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/KUNews |
About 41.6% of the graduate students at University of Kansas took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 23.2% 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.
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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