by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping students succeed. 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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., University of the Cumberlands landed the #338 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
Cumberlands also ranked #3 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Kentucky.
Cumberlands was ranked #359 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, Cumberlands took the #3 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Kentucky.
The total graduate student population at Cumberlands is made up of 41.4% women and 58.6% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 2.0% of the graduate student population at Cumberlands. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 22.8% 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 | $4,282 | $4,282 |
| Fees | $300 | $300 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Cumberlands, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $49,823. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 15% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from Cumberlands enter careers with an average starting salary of $69,695. That's about 7% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of University of the Cumberlands.
Contact details for Cumberlands are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 6191 College Station Drive, Williamsburg, KY 40769 |
| Phone: | 606-549-2200 |
| Website: | www.ucumberlands.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/ucumberlands |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/UCumberlands |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 99.0% of the graduate students at Cumberlands took at least one online course. Roughly 49.7% 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 |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 78 |
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 13 |
| Computer Information Systems | 9 |
| Educational Administration | 94 |
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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