2024 Best General Journalism Schools in Mississippi
3Colleges in Mississippi
125Journalism Degrees Awarded
Ranked #69 in popularity, general journalism is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Mississippi to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of general journalism. Combined, these schools handed out 125 degrees in general journalism to qualified students.
Your choice of general journalism school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general journalism schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Journalism Schools in Mississippi list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Journalism in Mississippi
The schools below may not offer all types of journalism degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's difficult to beat University of Mississippi if you wish to pursue a degree in general journalism. Located in the remote town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #361 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Ole Miss is a great university overall.
There were approximately 64 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at Ole Miss in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Southern Mississippi is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general journalism. Southern Miss is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Hattiesburg. This university ranks 5th out of 26 schools for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were about 35 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at Southern Miss in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in general journalism has to check out Rust College. Rust College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the town of Holly Springs. This college ranks 26th out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were about 17 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at Rust College in the most recent data year.
General Journalism is one of 6 different types of Journalism programs to choose from.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of general journalism school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general journalism schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
