2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biology Education in Mississippi

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In 2020-2021, 865 people earned their degree in biology education, making the major the 467th most popular in the United States.

Across Mississippi, there were 3 biology education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 biology education graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.

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

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Teacher Education Major in Mississippi

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Biology Education in Mississippi

1

William Carey University
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#4 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend William Carey University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Teacher Education Major in Mississippi list. William Carey University is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s biology teacher education degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Biology Education at William Carey University

2

Blue Mountain College
Blue Mountain, Mississippi

#8 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Blue Mountain College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Teacher Education Major in Mississippi list. Located in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s biology teacher education students in 2020-2021.

Full Blue Mountain College Biology Education Report

2

Mississippi College
Clinton, Mississippi

#3 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Biology Teacher Education Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi College landed the #2 spot on the list. Clinton, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s biology teacher education degrees to 2 students 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%.

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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

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