2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 84 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,447 and $43,355 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Mississippi

#1

Belhaven University

Jackson, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$10,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$39,774 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Belhaven University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi list. Belhaven University is located in Jackson, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 79 masters’s education degrees to qualified students.

Belhaven also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Master’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Belhaven University are $10,800, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Belhaven General Education 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

• *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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