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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 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 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. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general engineering.

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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

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jackson State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi list. This medium-sized school is located in Jackson, Mississippi, and it awarded 8 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Engineering at Jackson State

2

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, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 10 students 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 General Engineering at Mississippi State

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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.