2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Engineering is the 79th most popular major in the country with 11,796 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,873 and had an average of $20,557 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 264 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $7,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 197 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,787 and $15,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi associate degree engineering students.

Top 7 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Mississippi

1

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

#13 overall quality in Mississippi

$7,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi list. This medium-sized school is located in Perkinston, Mississippi, and it awarded 122 associates’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Engineering at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

2

Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Wesson, Mississippi

#20 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Copiah-Lincoln Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi. Located in Wesson, Mississippi, this small public school awarded 23 diplomas to qualified associates’s engineering students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Engineering at Copiah-Lincoln Community College

3

East Mississippi Community College
Scooba, Mississippi

#11 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, East Mississippi Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Scooba, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s engineering degrees to 23 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Engineering at EMCC

4

Itawamba Community College
Fulton, Mississippi

#12 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Itawamba Community College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi. Itawamba Community College is a public institution located in Fulton, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 24 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Engineering at ICC

5

Mississippi Delta Community College
Moorhead, Mississippi

#15 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Delta Community College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi. This small school is located in Moorhead, Mississippi, and it awarded 5 associates’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Mississippi Delta Community College General Engineering Report

6

Pearl River Community College
Poplarville, Mississippi

#21 overall quality in Mississippi

Pearl River Community College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi ranking. Located in Poplarville, Mississippi, this small public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s engineering students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Engineering at Pearl River Community College

6

Holmes Community College
Goodman, Mississippi

#9 overall quality in Mississippi

Holmes Community College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi ranking. Holmes Community College is a small public school situated in Goodman, Mississippi. It awarded 0 associates’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Engineering at Holmes Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering

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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