2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Mississippi

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Mississippi for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Secondary Education is the 84th most popular major in the country with 10,547 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Mississippi, there were 218 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 59 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,502 and $27,577 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Mississippi for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in secondary education. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in secondary education.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Mississippi for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Mississippi for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in Mississippi

1

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Mississippi for a Bachelor’s list. Mississippi State is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 57 bachelors’s secondary teaching 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 full report on Secondary Education at Mississippi State

2

Mississippi Valley State University
Itta Bena, Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi Valley State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Secondary Teaching Major in Mississippi for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Itta Bena, Mississippi, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s secondary teaching students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Secondary Education at Mississippi Valley State University

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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.

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