2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Law in Mississippi

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Law Major in Mississippi” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Law is the 21st most popular major in the country with 36,411 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Mississippi, there were 255 law graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 255 law graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,513 and $106,017 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Law Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in law. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their law 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Law Major in Mississippi

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi doctor’s degree law students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Law in Mississippi

1

Mississippi College
Clinton, Mississippi

#3 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Law Major in Mississippi list. Mississippi College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Clinton, Mississippi. It awarded 107 doctorate’s law degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Law Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mississippi landed the #2 spot on the list. Ole Miss is a public institution located in University, Mississippi. The school has a large population, and it awarded 148 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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.