2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,502 and $27,577 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi

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

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

1

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mississippi landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Mississippi is located in University, Mississippi and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about General Engineering at Ole Miss

2

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 #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi list. Mississippi State University is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 36 bachelors’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

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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

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