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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #46 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking. This means that the school is among the Top 5% of the nation when it comes to overall quality. As a result, UNC Chapel Hill is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
UNC Chapel Hill also ranked #2 for Best Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina.
UNC Chapel Hill was ranked #60 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 10% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. Because of its high ranking, UNC Chapel Hill won the Best Doctorate Schools badge this year.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in North Carolina, UNC Chapel Hill came in at #3.
The total graduate student population at UNC Chapel Hill is made up of 57.4% women and 42.6% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 27.9% of the graduate students who attend UNC Chapel Hill are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. UNC Chapel Hill is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 9.3% of the graduate student population. 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 | $10,552 | $28,844 |
| Fees | $2,014 | $2,014 |
After obtaining their master's degree from UNC Chapel Hill, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $62,070. That's about 6% higher than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Doctorate degree recipients from UNC Chapel Hill earn an average salary of $75,653 during the early years of their career. That's on par with the nationwide average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Contact details for UNC Chapel Hill are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 103 South Bldg Cb 9100, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 |
| Phone: | 919-962-2211 |
| Website: | https://www.unc.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/uncchapelhill |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/UNC |
About 36.4% of the graduate students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 17.2% 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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