2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in Mississippi

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Liberal Arts General Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 1st of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 556,813 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, liberal arts general studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,337 and had an average of $17,430 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 5,698 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,244 and $15,714 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Mississippi” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in liberal arts general studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their liberal arts general studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in Mississippi

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Alcorn State University
Alcorn State, Mississippi

#22 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alcorn State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Mississippi list. Alcorn State, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s liberal arts degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

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2

Delta State University
Cleveland, Mississippi

#10 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Delta State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Mississippi list. Cleveland, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s liberal arts degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

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3

Mississippi College
Clinton, Mississippi

#3 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Clinton, Mississippi, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s liberal arts students 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%.

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s liberal arts degrees to 84 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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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.