2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Engineering is the 96th most popular major in the country with 9,018 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Mississippi, there were 149 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in general engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Mississippi

1

Jackson State University
Jackson, Mississippi

#14 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Jackson State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Jackson, Mississippi is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

Full Jackson State University General Engineering Report

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Mississippi State is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Mississippi State General Engineering 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

• *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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.