by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual produces its Best Quality Schools rankings on a yearly basis to recognize those graduate schools that provide an excellent educational experience and are dedicated to helping their students succeed. 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 a field of 1149 colleges and universities considered in the 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking, William Paterson University of New Jersey landed the #725 spot.
William Paterson University also ranked #17 for Best Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey.
William Paterson University was ranked #585 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in New Jersey, William Paterson University came in at #20.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 74.8% of the total graduate students at William Paterson University are women and 25.2% are men.
Of all the graduate students at William Paterson University, around 41.8% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 1.4% 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $13,618 | $21,316 |
| Fees | $432 | $432 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from William Paterson University is $64,597. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 11% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of William Paterson University of New Jersey.
Contact details for William Paterson University are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 300 Pompton Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470 |
| Phone: | 973-720-2000 |
| Website: | www.wpunj.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/mywpu |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/WPUNJ_EDU |
Around 61.3% of William Paterson University graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 54.2% 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 |
|---|---|
| Nursing | 3 |
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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