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. These rankings are based on components such as post-graduation earnings of students, accumulated student debt of graduates, how much in demand the school is, and faculty and student diversity.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., University of Wisconsin - La Crosse landed the #196 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, UW - La Crosse took the #4 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Wisconsin.
UW - La Crosse was ranked #173 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
In addition, UW - La Crosse took the #3 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Wisconsin.
Women make up 62.4% of the total graduate student body at UW - La Crosse while men make you 37.6%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 11.0% of the graduate students who attend UW - La Crosse are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. UW - La Crosse is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 3.6% of the graduate student population. The following chart shows the distribution of racial-ethnic groups at the school. If you click on it, you'll find more detailed information.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $8,651 | $18,637 |
| Fees | $1,436 | $1,436 |
After obtaining their master's degree from UW - La Crosse, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $56,816. That's about 3% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
The average early-career salary for doctorate degree recipients from UW - La Crosse is $71,462. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 5% lower than the national average of $75,260.
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Contact details for UW - La Crosse are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1725 State St, La Crosse, WI 54601-9959 |
| Phone: | 608-785-8000 |
| Website: | www.uwlax.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/UWLaCrosse |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/UWLaCrosseNews |
Around 63.9% of UW - La Crosse graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 51.0% 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 |
|---|---|
| Educational Administration | 4 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 43 |
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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