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.
Northwestern Oklahoma State University landed the #964 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
In addition, NWOSU took the #16 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Oklahoma.
There were 676 college and universities analyzed in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, and NWOSU took the #658 spot on the list.
In addition, NWOSU took the #8 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Oklahoma.
Women make up 71.5% of the total graduate student body at NWOSU while men make you 28.5%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 22.3% of the graduate students who attend NWOSU are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 2.6% of graduate students hail from another country. 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 graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $4,928 | $9,932 |
| Fees | $639 | $639 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from NWOSU is $41,324. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 29% lower than the national average of $58,425.
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Contact details for NWOSU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 709 Oklahoma Blvd, Alva, OK 73717-2799 |
| Phone: | 580-327-1700 |
| Website: | www.nwosu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/nwosu.rangers |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/nwosu |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 58.7% of the graduate students at NWOSU took at least one online course. For that same period, 25.4% 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 |
|---|---|
| Nursing | 8 |
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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