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.
Out of the 1149 colleges and universities analyzed in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, Wayne State University took the #372 spot.
Wayne State also ranked #11 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Michigan.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and Wayne State took the #333 spot on the list.
Wayne State also ranked #8 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Michigan.
The total graduate student population at Wayne State is made up of 60.1% women and 39.9% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Of all the graduate students at Wayne State, around 32.1% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at Wayne State. Around 9.8% of graduate students are international. 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 | $16,920 | $36,650 |
| Fees | $2,017 | $2,017 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Wayne State enter careers with an average starting salary of $55,549. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 5% lower than the national average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Wayne State is $72,144. That's about 4% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Wayne State University.
Contact details for Wayne State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 42 W. Warren Ave., Detroit, MI 48202 |
| Phone: | 313-577-2424 |
| Website: | https://wayne.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/waynestateuniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/waynestate |
Around 59.6% of Wayne State graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Roughly 34.1% 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.
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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