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

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With 198,468 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, engineering is the 7th most popular major in the United States. 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. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1,098 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,502 and $27,577 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in Mississippi

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi list. Mississippi State is a public institution located in Mississippi State, Mississippi. The school has a large population, and it awarded 779 bachelors’s degrees 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 more about Engineering at Mississippi State University

2

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 5 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 #2 spot on the list. University of Mississippi is a large school located in University, Mississippi that handed out 232 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full University of Mississippi Engineering Report

3

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 #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi list. Jackson State is a public institution located in Jackson, Mississippi. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 55 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Engineering at Jackson State University

4

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#5 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Mississippi. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi list. Located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, this fairly large public school awarded 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Engineering at University of Southern Mississippi

5

Mississippi College
Clinton, Mississippi

#3 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi College landed the #5 spot on the list. Mississippi College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Clinton, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Engineering at Mississippi College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for 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 Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes.