2021 Best Colleges in Mississippi for Students from Italy

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Italian Students in Mississippi ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

After analyzing 2 schools in Mississippi, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Italian students in Mississippi. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality of the school, number of total international students at the school, and the percentage of international students on campus - to make this determination.

Get more details on our ranking methodology.

Customizing Your List

We know that one set of rankings doesn't always help you determine the best school for you, so we've created the ability to narrow your list by location as well as alternative rankings that prioritize different factors such as those of importance to online students or returning adults or those who value diversity and value for your money.

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Top Colleges in Mississippi for Students from Italy

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS

$24,900 Avg Tuition & Fees

3.2% International Students

Mississippi State University tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Italian students in Mississippi. Mississippi State University is a large public school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 4,575 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 3.2% are international. Students studying at Mississippi State come from such countries as India, China, and Nepal.

Full Mississippi State University Report

2

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS

$11,204 Avg Tuition & Fees

2.2% International Students

Out of the 2 schools in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #2 spot on the list. Hattiesburg, Mississippi is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 2,647 students in 2020-2021.

International students make up 2.2% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as India, Nepal, and China come to Southern Miss to study.

Full University of Southern Mississippi Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.