2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Journalism in Mississippi

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Mississippi” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 13,552 people earned their degree in journalism, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,953 and had an average of $23,734 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 125 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,668 and $27,727 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,787 and $15,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in journalism. That schools that top this list have a program in journalism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Mississippi”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Journalism in Mississippi

1

Itawamba Community College
Fulton, Mississippi

#12 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Itawamba Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Mississippi list. This small school is located in Fulton, Mississippi, and it awarded 7 associates’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Itawamba Community College Journalism Report

2

East Mississippi Community College
Scooba, Mississippi

#11 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Mississippi Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Mississippi list. EMCC is a small school located in Scooba, Mississippi that handed out 2 associates’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

Full East Mississippi Community College Journalism Report

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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