Graduate Programs at California Best Colleges

Graduate Programs Comparison at 10 California Best Colleges

The next table lists the 10 best Graduate Programs at California Best Colleges out of 94 schools. The average graduate tuition & fees of the schools is $44,823 for academic year 2022-2023. The average graduate student population is 7,864 and the schools offer 205 major programs (programs for master and doctorate) in average.

Claremont McKenna College has the highest graduate tuition & fees of $65,574, and University of California-Los Angeles has the lowest graduate costs of $28,424.
University of Southern California has the most graduate students of 28,246, and Claremont McKenna College has the lowest number of graduate students of 3.
University of Southern California offers the most graduate programs (490 programs), and Soka University of America has the smallest number of graduate programs of 2 programs.

Graduate Programs at California Best Colleges Comparison
Rank^*	Name	Graduate Tuition & Fees	Graduate Students	Number of Graduate Programs	Number of Online Graduate Programs	Students to Faculty Ratio
1	Stanford UniversityPrivate, 4 yearsStanford, CA	$57,210	10,234	235 programs	11 programs	5 to 1
2	California Institute of TechnologyPrivate, 4 yearsPasadena, CA	$60,657	1,419	93 programs	-	3 to 1
4	Claremont McKenna CollegePrivate, 4 yearsClaremont, CA	$65,574	3	57 programs	-	8 to 1
5	University of California-Los AngelesPublic, 4 yearsLos Angeles, CA	$28,424 ($13,322 Residents)	14,007	349 programs	-	18 to 1
6	University of California-BerkeleyPublic, 4 yearsBerkeley, CA	$29,578 ($14,476 Residents)	12,828	319 programs	-	19 to 1
7	University of Southern CaliforniaPrivate, 4 yearsLos Angeles, CA	$64,666	28,246	490 programs	27 programs	9 to 1
9	Soka University of AmericaPrivate, 4 yearsAliso Viejo, CA	$35,544	10	2 programs	-	7 to 1
10	Scripps CollegePrivate, 4 yearsClaremont, CA	$48,598	19	69 programs	-	10 to 1
11	University of California-San DiegoPublic, 4 yearsLa Jolla, CA	$29,005 ($13,903 Residents)	8,910	251 programs	-	19 to 1
14	University of California-Santa BarbaraPublic, 4 yearsSanta Barbara, CA	$28,974 ($13,872 Residents)	2,961	186 programs	-	17 to 1
	Average	$32,746 Residents $44,823 Out-of-State	7,864	205 programs	19 programs	11.50 to 1

^*The rank in California Ranking. Schools for discontinuous number do not have graduate programs.

^**Ranking data provided by CollegeEvaluator.

^***The tuition is for the academic year 2022-2023 and other statistics is based on 2021-2022 data.