2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Fine & Studio Arts is the 31st most popular major in the country with 37,413 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, fine and studio arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,051 and had an average of $25,492 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 130 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,896 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 42 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,787 and $15,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in fine and studio arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their fine and studio arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi associate degree fine arts students.

Top 7 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in Mississippi

1

Itawamba Community College
Fulton, Mississippi

#12 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Itawamba Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Itawamba Community College is a public institution located in Fulton, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 15 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Mississippi Delta Community College
Moorhead, Mississippi

#15 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Delta Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi. This small school is located in Moorhead, Mississippi, and it awarded 5 associates’s Fine Arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Mississippi Delta Community College Fine & Studio Arts Report

3

Holmes Community College
Goodman, Mississippi

#9 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Holmes Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi. Holmes Community College is a small school located in Goodman, Mississippi that handed out 13 associates’s Fine Arts degrees in 2020-2021.

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4

Coahoma Community College
Clarksdale, Mississippi

Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Coahoma Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Clarksdale, Mississippi, this small public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified associates’s Fine Arts students in 2020-2021.

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5

Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Wesson, Mississippi

#20 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Copiah-Lincoln Community College landed the #5 spot on the list. Copiah-Lincoln Community College is located in Wesson, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 associates’s Fine Arts degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Fine & Studio Arts at Copiah-Lincoln Community College

6

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

#13 overall quality in Mississippi

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi ranking. Perkinston, Mississippi is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s Fine Arts degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

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7

Pearl River Community College
Poplarville, Mississippi

#21 overall quality in Mississippi

Pearl River Community College landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Mississippi ranking. Pearl River Community College is a small school located in Poplarville, Mississippi that handed out 0 associates’s Fine Arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Fine & Studio Arts at Pearl River Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts

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.