2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fine Arts in Mississippi

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Fine Arts is the 66th most popular major in the country with 11,922 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Mississippi, there were 40 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fine arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their fine arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The fine arts 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi”.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fine Arts in Mississippi

1

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Mississippi. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi list. University of Mississippi is a large public school situated in University, Mississippi. It awarded 2 masters’s fine arts 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 full report on Fine Arts at University of Mississippi

2

Mississippi College
Clinton, Mississippi

#3 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi. Clinton, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s fine arts degrees to 1 students 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 Fine Arts Report

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.