2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Mississippi

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In 2020-2021, 29,810 people earned their degree in general education, making the major the 41st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,719 and had an average of $23,394 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 407 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,766 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,502 and $27,577 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general education. That schools that top this list have a program in general education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Mississippi

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi bachelor’s degree education students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Mississippi

1

Belhaven University
Jackson, Mississippi

#7 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Belhaven University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Mississippi list. Belhaven is located in Jackson, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s education degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on General Education at Belhaven

2

Millsaps College
Jackson, Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Millsaps College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Jackson, Mississippi, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s education degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about General Education at Millsaps

3

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Mississippi State is a public institution located in Mississippi State, Mississippi. The school has a large population, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s degrees 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 General Education at Mississippi State

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education

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.

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