2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in Mississippi

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in Mississippi” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Anthropology is the 75th most popular major in the country with 10,974 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Mississippi, there were 54 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in anthropology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in anthropology.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Anthropology in Mississippi

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in Mississippi list. Hattiesburg, Mississippi is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s anthropology degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Anthropology at University of Southern Mississippi

2

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mississippi. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in Mississippi. This large school is located in University, Mississippi, and it awarded 6 masters’s anthropology degrees 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 more about Anthropology at University of Mississippi

3

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in Mississippi list. Mississippi State is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 5 masters’s anthropology degrees in 2020-2021.

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

Read full report on Anthropology at Mississippi State University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Anthropology in the Southeast Region
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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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