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.
University of North Carolina at Wilmington came in at #576 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.
In addition, UNCW took the #9 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, UNCW came in at #451.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in North Carolina, UNCW came in at #12.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 70.6% of the total graduate students at UNCW are women and 29.4% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 21.3% of the graduate student population at UNCW. UNCW is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 1.7% 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 tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $4,719 | $18,548 |
| Fees | $2,795 | $2,795 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from UNCW enter careers with an average starting salary of $47,678. That's about 18% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
The average early-career salary for doctorate degree recipients from UNCW is $68,987. That's about 8% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Contact details for UNCW are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5963 |
| Phone: | 910-962-3000 |
| Website: | www.uncw.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wilmington-NC/UNCW/8357990919 |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/uncwilmington |
About 77.7% of the graduate students at University of North Carolina at Wilmington took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 70.1% 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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology | 2 |
| Educational Administration | 18 |
| General Psychology | 1 |
| Nursing | 13 |
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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