2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Mississippi” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Other Health Professions is the 102nd most popular major in the country with 7,984 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, other health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,061 and had an average of $24,616 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 20 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,649 and $18,502 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,502 and $27,577 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Mississippi” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other health professions. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other health professions program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in Mississippi

1

William Carey University
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#4 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend William Carey University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Mississippi list. William Carey University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full William Carey University Other Health Professions Report

2

Blue Mountain College
Blue Mountain, Mississippi

#8 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Blue Mountain College landed the #2 spot on the list. Blue Mountain College is a small school located in Blue Mountain, Mississippi that handed out 2 bachelors’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Other Health Professions at Blue Mountain College

3

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

$45,649 Average Early-Career Earnings

$18,502 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mississippi landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in University, Mississippi, this large public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s health professions students in 2020-2021.

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

Read full report on Other Health Professions at Ole Miss

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Health Professions

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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