2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Writing Studies in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Writing Major in Mississippi” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 12,529 people earned their degree in writing studies, making the major the 81st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, writing studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,208 and had an average of $24,626 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 44 writing studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $31,516 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 writing studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Writing Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in writing studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their writing studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Writing Major in Mississippi

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Writing Studies in Mississippi

1

Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, Mississippi

#6 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi University for Women. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Writing Major in Mississippi list. Columbus, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s writing degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Writing Studies at MUW

2

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Writing 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 5 masters’s writing degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Ole Miss Writing Studies Report

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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.

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