2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Mississippi” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communication & Journalism is the 11th most popular major in the country with 120,571 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, communication and journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,266 and had an average of $24,758 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 878 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,629 and $27,652 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 47 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Mississippi” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication and journalism. That schools that top this list have a program in communication and journalism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Mississippi

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi master’s degree communication & journalism students.

Top 6 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in Mississippi

1

Mississippi College
Clinton, Mississippi

#3 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Mississippi list. Mississippi College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Clinton, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at Mississippi College

2

Mississippi Valley State University
Itta Bena, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Valley State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Mississippi. Mississippi Valley State University is a public institution located in Itta Bena, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Mississippi Valley State University Communication & Journalism Report

3

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mississippi. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Mississippi. University of Mississippi is located in University, Mississippi and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 masters’s communication and journalism degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at Ole Miss

4

Jackson State University
Jackson, Mississippi

#14 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Jackson State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Jackson State is a medium-sized school located in Jackson, Mississippi that handed out 3 masters’s communication and journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at Jackson State

5

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 #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Mississippi list. Hattiesburg, Mississippi is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communication and journalism degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at University of Southern Mississippi

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 overall quality in Mississippi

Mississippi State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Mississippi ranking. Located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, this large public school handed out 163 degrees to qualified masters’s communication and journalism students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at Mississippi State University

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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 Josh Hallett.