2024 Best Value Colleges for Engineering in Mississippi

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Engineering Schools in Mississippi” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 198,468 engineering students received their degree, making the major the 7th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,653 and had an average of $23,855 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 1,512 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,921 and $22,344 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Schools in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools in Mississippi.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Engineering in Mississippi

1

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$16,122 Average Net Price

$41,190 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Schools in Mississippi. Mississippi State is a large public school situated in Mississippi State, Mississippi. It awarded 900 ’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Mississippi State also made our “Best Engineering Schools in Mississippi” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Mississippi State University is $16,122 for Mississippi Engineering students.

Read more about Engineering at Mississippi State

2

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$12,161 Average Net Price

$46,932 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mississippi. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools in Mississippi. Located in University, Mississippi, this large public school awarded 267 diplomas to qualified ’s engineering students in 2020-2021.

Ole Miss also took the #2 spot in our “Best Engineering Schools in Mississippi” ranking. It costs about $12,161 for Mississippi Engineering students per year to attend University of Mississippi.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Engineering at Ole Miss

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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 Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes.