2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in Mississippi

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Mississippi” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 270 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $64,355 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 27 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,964 and $13,187 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general education program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Mississippi.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in Mississippi

#1

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Perkinston, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$8,503 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Mississippi. Perkinston, Mississippi is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s education degrees to 27 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. It costs about $8,503 for Mississippi Associate Degree Education students per year to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

Read more about General Education at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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