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.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Virginia State University landed the #1040 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, Virginia State took the #27 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Virginia.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Virginia State came in at #665.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 70.4% of the total graduate students at Virginia State are women and 29.6% are men.
About 86.1% of the graduate students who attend Virginia State are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 7.2% 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 | $8,375 | $18,627 |
| Fees | $3,614 | $4,367 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Virginia State is $54,405. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 7% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of Virginia State University.
Contact details for Virginia State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 Hayden Drive, Petersburg, VA 23806 |
| Phone: | 804-524-5000 |
| Website: | www.vsu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/VirginiaStateUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/VSUTrojans |
In 2020-2021, 6.2% of the graduate students at Virginia State University took at least one class online. Approximately 6.2% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
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 | 4 |
| Educational Administration | 7 |
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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More about our data sources and methodologies.