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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., University of West Alabama landed the #242 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Alabama, University of West Alabama came in at #4.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, University of West Alabama came in at #528.
In addition, University of West Alabama took the #7 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Alabama.
The total graduate student population at University of West Alabama is made up of 80.5% women and 19.5% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at University of West Alabama, around 37.3% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. University of West Alabama is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 0.7% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $6,678 | $13,356 |
| Fees | $190 | $190 |
After obtaining their master's degree from University of West Alabama, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $51,240. When comparing to other master's degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 12% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of University of West Alabama.
Contact details for University of West Alabama are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Station One, Livingston, AL 35470 |
| Phone: | 205-652-3400 |
| Website: | www.uwa.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.uwa.edu/facebook.aspx |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 95.5% of the graduate students at University of West Alabama took at least one online course. For that same period, 92.3% 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 |
|---|---|
| Other Education | 17 |
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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