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. 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.
University of Nevada - Reno came in at #303 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.
UNR also ranked #2 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Nevada.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and UNR took the #234 spot on the list.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 61.5% of the total graduate students at UNR are women and 38.5% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 31.7% of the graduate student population at UNR. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 9.1% 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 | $5,625 | $21,715 |
| Fees | $665 | $665 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from UNR enter careers with an average starting salary of $58,200. That's on par with the nationwide average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from UNR enter careers with an average starting salary of $62,888. That's about 16% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of University of Nevada - Reno.
Contact details for UNR are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1664 North Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89557 |
| Phone: | 775-784-1110 |
| Website: | www.unr.edu/ |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/unevadareno |
In 2020-2021, 34.7% of the graduate students at University of Nevada - Reno took at least one class online. Roughly 29.8% 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.
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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