2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Studies Major in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Studies Major in Mississippi” ranking is part of that endeavor.

International Studies is the 100th most popular major in the country with 7,368 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, international studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,198 and had an average of $21,594 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 6 international studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 international studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,502 and $27,577 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Studies Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in international studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in international studies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The international studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Studies Major in Mississippi”.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Studies Major in Mississippi

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi bachelor’s degree international studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Studies in Mississippi

1

Mississippi College
Clinton, Mississippi

#3 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Studies Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi College landed the #1 spot on the list. MC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Clinton, Mississippi. It awarded 6 bachelors’s international studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full MC International Studies Report

2

Belhaven University
Jackson, Mississippi

#7 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Belhaven University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Studies Major in Mississippi list. Located in Jackson, Mississippi, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s international studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about International Studies at Belhaven University

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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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