2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 9,530 people earned their degree in secondary education, making the major the 88th most popular in the United States.

Across Mississippi, there were 249 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,851 and $25,430 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality secondary 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 secondary education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Mississippi

#1

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$16,173 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Mississippi State is a large public school situated in Mississippi State, Mississippi. It awarded 53 bachelors’s secondary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

Mississippi State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Secondary Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list. The estimated yearly cost for Mississippi State is $16,173 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Secondary Teaching students.

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

Full Mississippi State Secondary Education Report

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary 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

• *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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