Graduate Programs at California State University-Sacramento

Graduate School Overview

California State University-Sacramento (referred to as Sacramento State) is a Public, 4 years school located in Sacramento, CA. It is classified as a Master's College and University (larger programs) school by Carnegie Classification and its highest level of offering is Doctor's degree - research/scholarship and professional practice.

The school is accredited by WASC Senior College and University Commission (4/30/1951 - Current).

Sacramento State Directory Information
School Name	California State University-Sacramento (Sacramento State)
Address	6000 J St, Sacramento, CA 95819-2694
Phone	916-278-6011
Web	https://www.csus.edu
Online Application	https://www2.calstate.edu/apply
Financial Info	https://www.csus.edu/apply/financial-aid-scholarships

The 2023 graduate school tuition & fees at California State University-Sacramento is $8,918 for California residents and $18,422 for out-of-state students. The school has 2,897 graduate students where it has a total enrollment of 31,818 including undergraduate students.

It offers total 117 graduate programs through Post-Bachelor Certificate, Master's, Doctorate (Research), Doctorate (Professional Practice), and Doctorate (Other). Among them, 1 programs are available online classes.

Graduate School 2023 Key Facts
School Type	Public, 4 years
Tuition & Fees	$18,422 $8,918 for California Residents
Student Population	2,897
Offered Degrees/Programs	Post-Bachelor Certificate, Master's, Doctorate (Research), Doctorate (Professional Practice), and Doctorate (Other)
Number of Programs	117 graduate programs (1 programs available online learning)
Student to Faculty Ratio	24 to 1

The graduate tuition & fees at California State University-Sacramento is $8,918 for California residents and $18,422 for out-of-state students for the academic year 2022-2023. The tuition per credit hour is -$1 for California residents and $398 for out-of-state students.

California State University-Sacramento offers the alternative tuition plans.

California State University-Sacramento offers the distance education programs. All course works for completing a degree program can be done through online exclusively for graduate programs. In addition, the distance learning courses are offered for students who are not enrolled online exclusively.

On its campus, remedial services, academic/career services, employment services for students, placement services for completers, on-campus daycare for students' children are provided for their students.

Special Learning Opportunities & On-campus Services
Distance Learning (Online Classes)	1 Online Programs Available
Special learning Opportunities	ROTC (Army, Air Force) Study abroad Teacher certification
On-Campus Student Services	Remedial services Academic/career services Employment services for students Placement services for completers On-campus daycare for students' children

2023 Graduate Tuition, Fees, Other Expenses

For the academic year 2022-2023, the graduate school tuition & fees of California State University-Sacramento is $8,918 for California residents and $18,422 for other students. The graduate tuition & fees are increased by 0.50% compared to previous academic year.

Data source: 2022-2023 tuition - NCES(National Center for Education Statistics (Last update: July 22, 2022)

2022-2023 Graduate Tuition & fees
	California Residents		Out-of-State
	Tuition	Fees	Tuition	Fees
2018-2019	$7,176	$1,568	$16,680	$1,568
2019-2020	$7,176	$1,626	$16,680	$1,626
2020-2021	$7,176	$1,676	$16,680	$1,676
2021-2022	$7,176	$1,650	$16,680	$1,650
2022-2023	$7,176	$1,742	$16,680	$1,742

The graduate school tuition & fees of Sacramento State is average compared to public graduate schools in California. The average graduate school tuition for all graduate schools in United States is $19,603 and the California graduate tuition is $21,752 (public) / $24,037 (private).

The next table compares the average graduate school tuition by location and school types.

Graduate Tuition & fees Comparison
	Residents	Out-of-State
California State University-Sacramento	$8,918	$18,422
All Graduate Schools	$16,007	$19,603
Public	$11,484	$20,787
Private	$19,674
California Graduate Schools	$19,766	$22,527
Public	$11,624	$21,752
Private	$24,037

For academic year 2022-2023, the living costs are $20,350 when a student lives on-campus housing facilities (i.e. dormitory, school owned apartments, etc.) at California State University-Sacramento. On-campus living costs are increased by 2.67% compared to previous academic year. The off-campus living costs are $25,692. Off-campus living costs are increased by 11.77% compared to previous academic year.

2022-2023 Living Expenses
	Living On-Campus		Living Off-Campus
	Room & Board	Other Expense	Room & Board	Other Expense
2018-2019	$14,900	$2,326	$13,780	$2,732
2019-2020	$15,224	$2,568	$15,084	$2,982
2020-2021	$16,134	$3,174	$16,580	$3,944
2021-2022	$15,944	$3,640	$19,096	$3,890
2022-2023	$16,278	$3,828	$21,620	$4,072

For academic year 2022-2023, the tuition per credit hour for graduate programs is $398 at California State University-Sacramento. The graduate tuition per credit hour are increased by 0.51% compared to previous academic year.

2022-2023 Graduation Program Tuition per Credit Hour
	Tuition
2018-2019	$396
2019-2020	$396
2020-2021	$396
2021-2022	$396
2022-2023	$398

Graduate Programs at Sacramento State

California State University-Sacramento offers 55 graduate programs for Master's, Doctorate, and Post-Graduate Certificate. The next table lists number of programs by offered degree and online availability along with number of completers by degree/certificate programs. Last year, 1,089 students have completed their study at California State University-Sacramento.

Offered Degrees at California State University-Sacramento
Award Level	Total Number of Programs	Available Online Class	Number of Completers
Master's Degree	42	1	1,023
Doctor's degree - research/scholarship	1	0	0
Doctor's degree - professional practice	2	0	25
Doctor's degree - other	2	0	31
Post Bachelor's Degree	8	0	10
Total	55	1	1,089

The next table shows the popular graduate programs at California State University-Sacramento by award level.

The most popular Post-graduate Certificate program is the Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies (other) program with 7 completers.
The most popular Master's program is the Business Administration and Management program with 204 completers.
The most popular Doctorate program is the Physical Therapy/Therapist program with 32 completers.

Popular Post-graduate Certificate Programs at California State University-Sacramento
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies (other)	✕	7	-
Education	✕	4	-
Education	✕	2	-
Computer and Information Sciences	✕	1	-
Computer Science	✕	1	-

Popular Master's Programs at California State University-Sacramento
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Business Administration and Management	✕	204	$69,000
Business Administration and Management	✕	172	$69,000
Education	✕	143	-
Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services	✕	140	$48,500
Social Work	✕	100	$54,800

Popular Doctorate Programs at California State University-Sacramento
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Physical Therapy/Therapist	✕	32	-
Physical Therapy/Therapist	✕	31	-
Community College Education	✕	15	-
Educational Leadership and Administration	✕	10	-
Community College Education	✕	6	-

California State University-Sacramento offers 55 programs through Master's, Doctorate, and Post-Graduate Certificate. The programs are offered both in online and on-site education. Last year total 1,089 students have completed their graduate studies.

1,023 students have earned/completed Master's program.
31 students have earned/completed Doctorate (Practice) program.
25 students have earned/completed Doctorate (Other) program.
10 students have earned/completed Post-Bachelor's program.

Master's Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Communication and Journalism [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Speech Communication and Rhetoric	✕	4	-
Computer and Information Sciences [+]	✕	49 completers	-
Computer Science	✕	49	-
Education [+]	✕	319 completers	-
Education	✕	143	-
Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services	✕	140	$48,500
Early Childhood Education and Teaching	✕	2	-
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods, Oth (other)	✕	33	-
Business Teacher Education	✕	1	-
Engineering [+]	✕	71 completers	-
Civil Engineering	✕	17	-
Computer Engineering	✕	10	-
Computer Software Engineering	✕	2	-
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	✕	23	-
Mechanical Engineering	✕	19	-
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics [+]	✕	9 completers	-
Spanish Language and Literature	✕	9	-
English Language and Literature [+]	✕	29 completers	-
English Language and Literature	✕	29	-
Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humanities [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies	✕	0	-
Humanities/Humanistic Studies	✕	3	-
Biological and Biomedical Sciences [+]	✕	13 completers	-
Biology/Biological Sciences	✕	13	-
Mathematics and Statistics [+]	✕	12 completers	-
Mathematics	✕	12	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies [+]	✕	1 completers	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (other)	✕	1	-
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies [+]	✕	8 completers	-
Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies	✕	4	-
Health and Physical Education/Fitness	✕	4	-
Physical Sciences [+]	✕	10 completers	-
Chemistry	✕	4	-
Geology/Earth Science	✕	6	-
Psychology [+]	✕	16 completers	-
Psychology	✕	9	-
Industrial and Organizational Psychology	✕	7	-
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Firefighting [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Criminal Justice/Safety Studies	✕	4	-
Human Services [+]	✕	126 completers	-
Public Administration	✕	26	-
Social Work	✕	100	$54,800
Social Sciences [+]	✕	26 completers	-
Anthropology	✕	4	-
Economics	✕	5	-
International Relations and Affairs	✕	0	-
Political Science and Government	✕	11	-
Sociology	✕	6	-
Visual and Performing Arts [+]	✕	5 completers	-
Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts	✕	0	-
Art/Art Studies	✕	1	-
Music Performance	✕	4	-
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✕	93 completers	-
Communication Sciences and Disorders	✕	32	$64,100
Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse	✕	61	$85,100
Business [+]	✔ (1 completers)	204 completers	-
Business Administration and Management	✕	204	$69,000
Accounting	✔	0	-
History [+]	✕	21 completers	-
History	✕	18	$42,200
Public/Applied History	✕	3	-
	Total	1,023

Doctorate (Research) Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
History [+]	✕	0 completers	-
Public/Applied History	✕	0	-
	Total	0

Doctorate (Practice) Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Education [+]	✕	0 completers	-
Educational Leadership and Administration	✕	0	-
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✕	31 completers	-
Physical Therapy/Therapist	✕	31	-
	Total	31

Doctorate (Other) Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Education [+]	✕	25 completers	-
Educational Leadership and Administration	✕	10	-
Community College Education	✕	15	-
	Total	25

Post-Bachelor's Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies [+]	✕	7 completers	-
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies (other)	✕	7	-
Computer and Information Sciences [+]	✕	1 completers	-
Computer and Information Sciences	✕	0	-
Information Technology	✕	0	-
Computer Science	✕	1	-
Education [+]	✕	2 completers	-
Education	✕	2	-
Community College Education	✕	0	-
Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humanities [+]	✕	0 completers	-
General Studies	✕	0	-
Social Sciences [+]	✕	0 completers	-
Political Science and Government	✕	0	-
	Total	10

Graduate Student Population at Sacramento State

For the academic year 2021-2022, total 3,047 students enrolled into California State University-Sacramento graduate schools where it has total 31,818 students including undergraduate students. By attending status, there are 1,647 full-time and 1,400 part-time graduate students. By gender, 1,002 male and 2,045 female students are attending graduate schools. The next table summarizes the graduate student population by gender and attending status.

Graduate School Student Population By Gender
	Total	Male	Female
Total	3,047	1,002	2,045
Full-time	1,647	485	1,162
Part-tme	1,400	517	883

The next table summarizes the students population by race/ethnicity.

There are 1,148 White (37.68%), 155 Black/African American (5.09%), 778 Hispanic (25.53%), 411 Asian (13.49%), and 555 students with other races. 225 students are enrolled with non-resident alien status.

Graduate Student Population By Race/ethnicity
	Total	Male	Female
Total	3,047	1,002	2,045
American Indian/Native American	12	5	7
Asian	411	152	259
Black/African American	155	48	107
Hispanic	778	207	571
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	19	7	12
White	1,148	373	775
Two More	142	45	97
Un-Known	157	74	83
Non-resident Alien	225	91	134

California State University-Sacramento offers the distance learning opportunities (online degree program and/or courses) for graduate programs. 810 graduate students (26.58% of total students) are enrolled online exclusively and 1,408 graduate students (46.21% of total students) are enrolled some online courses. The next table summarizes the online student population.

Distance Learning Student Population
	Number of Graduate Students
Total	3,047
Enrolled Online Exclusively	810
Enrolled Some Online Courses	1,408
Not in Online Courses	829

The following table summarizes the graduate students population by age at California State University-Sacramento. 811 students are aged 20 to 24 (26.62% of total students), 143 students are aged above 50 (4.69%). Next table summarizes the student population by age at California State University-Sacramento.

Graduate Student Population By Age
	Total	Male	Female
Total	3,047	1,002	2,045
Age 20-21	34	9	25
Age 22-24	777	228	549
Age 25-29	1,035	355	680
Age 30-34	489	192	297
Age 35-39	283	94	189
Age 40-49	286	89	197
Age 50-64	132	34	98
Over 64	11	1	10

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