by our College Data Analytics TeamThe goal of College Factual's yearly Best Quality Schools rankings is to help students find graduate schools that provide excellent learning environments that are a great fit for them. 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 a field of 1149 colleges and universities considered in the 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #51 spot. This rank is quite an honor since it puts the school in the Top 5% of the country for overall quality. For this achievement, UMN Twin Cities received one of this year's Best Master's Schools badges.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota, UMN Twin Cities came in at #1.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and UMN Twin Cities took the #66 spot on the list. This means that the school is among the Top 10% of the nation when it comes to overall quality. UMN Twin Cities was awarded this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge for this accomplishment.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Minnesota, UMN Twin Cities came in at #2.
Women make up 56.1% of the total graduate student body at UMN Twin Cities while men make you 43.9%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 19.0% of the graduate student population at UMN Twin Cities. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 18.0% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $17,844 | $27,612 |
| Fees | $1,650 | $1,650 |
Master's degree recipients from UMN Twin Cities earn an average salary of $64,362 during the early years of their career. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 10% higher than the national average of $58,425.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from UMN Twin Cities, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $78,092. That's good news for those graduates since it is 4% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
Contact details for UMN Twin Cities are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 100 Church Street Se, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0213 |
| Phone: | 612-625-5000 |
| Website: | https://twin-cities.umn.edu/ |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 29.1% of the graduate students at UMN Twin Cities took at least one online course. For that same period, 7.5% 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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