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. 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 Massachusetts - Boston came in at #567 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
UMass Boston also ranked #30 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts.
UMass Boston was ranked #342 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
UMass Boston also ranked #18 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Massachusetts.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 66.9% of the total graduate students at UMass Boston are women and 33.1% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 26.7% of the graduate student population at UMass Boston. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 12.0% of graduate students hail from another country. 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 | $18,433 | $35,980 |
| Fees | $505 | $505 |
After obtaining their master's degree from UMass Boston, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $58,641. That's roughly the same as the countrywide average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from UMass Boston enter careers with an average starting salary of $57,087. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 24% lower than the national average of $75,260.
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Contact details for UMass Boston are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125-3393 |
| Phone: | 617-287-5000 |
| Website: | www.umb.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/umassboston |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/umassboston |
About 47.8% of the graduate students at University of Massachusetts - Boston took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 36.3% 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.
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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