2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations in Mississippi

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Public Relations is the 138th most popular major in the country with 5,216 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Mississippi, there were 21 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in public relations. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public relations.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in Mississippi”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Relations in Mississippi

1

Mississippi Valley State University
Itta Bena, Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Valley State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Itta Bena, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s PR degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Full Mississippi Valley State University Public Relations Report

2

Mississippi College
Clinton, Mississippi

#3 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in Mississippi. MC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Clinton, Mississippi. It awarded 3 masters’s PR degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full MC Public Relations Report

3

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#5 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Mississippi. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in Mississippi list. Southern Miss is a fairly large school located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi that handed out 1 masters’s PR degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Public Relations at Southern Miss

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bill Koplitz.