2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing 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 “Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Mississippi for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Nursing is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 3rd of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 322,592 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, nursing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,916 and had an average of $25,426 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 2,838 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,912 and $20,448 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 175 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Mississippi for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in nursing. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in nursing.

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Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Mississippi for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi master’s degree nursing students.

Top 7 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing in Mississippi

1

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

$84,925 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 #1 for the Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Mississippi for a Master’s. University, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s nursing degrees to 62 students 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.

Read full report on Nursing at University of Mississippi

2

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 #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Mississippi for a Master’s list. Southern Miss is a fairly large public school situated in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It awarded 45 masters’s nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Nursing at Southern Miss

3

Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, Mississippi

#6 overall quality in Mississippi

$99,314 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Mississippi for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi University for Women landed the #3 spot on the list. Mississippi University for Women is a public institution located in Columbus, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 33 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Nursing at MUW

4

William Carey University
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#4 overall quality in Mississippi

$77,616 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Mississippi for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, William Carey University landed the #4 spot on the list. William Carey University is a medium-sized school located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi that handed out 24 masters’s nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

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5

Alcorn State University
Alcorn State, Mississippi

#22 overall quality in Mississippi

$83,230 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alcorn State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Mississippi for a Master’s list. Alcorn State University is located in Alcorn State, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 masters’s nursing degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Nursing at Alcorn State University

6

Delta State University
Cleveland, Mississippi

#10 overall quality in Mississippi

$88,717 Average Early-Career Earnings

Delta State University ranked #6 on this year’s Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Mississippi for a Master’s list. Delta State University is located in Cleveland, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s nursing degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Nursing at Delta State University

7

Mississippi College
Clinton, Mississippi

#3 overall quality in Mississippi

With a ranking of #7, Mississippi College did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Mississippi for a Master’s list. MC is located in Clinton, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 127 masters’s nursing degrees to qualified students.

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 Nursing at Mississippi College

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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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