2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Relations & National Security in Mississippi

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Relations Major in Mississippi” ranking is part of that endeavor.

International Relations & National Security is the 67th most popular major in the country with 14,306 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, international relations and national security graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $41,288 and had an average of $21,455 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 58 international relations and national security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 international relations and national security 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 Relations Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in international relations and national security. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their international relations and national security program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Relations & National Security in Mississippi

1

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Relations Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mississippi landed the #1 spot on the list. Ole Miss is a public institution located in University, Mississippi. The school has a large population, and it awarded 52 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on International Relations & National Security at Ole Miss

2

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#5 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International Relations Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s international relations degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Southern Mississippi International Relations & National Security Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Relations & National Security in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Relations & National Security

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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