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. Factors that go into these rankings include how much money students make after graduation, the number of FTE students per instructor, and how much debt students take on to attend the school.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., University of the Pacific landed the #159 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 15% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. Pacific received this year's Best Master's Schools badge for its high ranking.
In addition, Pacific took the #26 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in California.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Pacific came in at #103.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in California, Pacific came in at #18.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 62.2% of the total graduate students at Pacific are women and 37.8% are men.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 59.5% of the graduate student population at Pacific. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 6.9% of graduate students hail from another country. The chart below shows the breakdown of graduate student demographics at the school. You can click on it for a more detailed view.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $50,128 | $50,128 |
| Fees | $510 | $510 |
Master's degree recipients from Pacific earn an average salary of $64,162 during the early years of their career. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 10% higher than the national average of $58,425.
The average early-career salary for doctorate degree recipients from Pacific is $92,529. That's good news for those graduates since it is 23% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of University of the Pacific.
Contact details for Pacific are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 3601 Pacific Ave, Stockton, CA 95211-0197 |
| Phone: | 209-946-2011 |
| Website: | www.pacific.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/pages/University-of-the-Pacific/28972094743 |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/#!/UOPacific |
Around 0.9% of Pacific graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 0.9% 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.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 2 |
| Communication Sciences | 19 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 3 |
| Dentistry | 167 |
| Educational Administration | 27 |
| Law | 180 |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 219 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 37 |
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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