by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began producing its annual Best Quality Schools rankings as a means to assist students in finding top-quality graduate colleges and universities that are invested in preparing their students for their future endeavors. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
Jackson State University came in at #979 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
In addition, Jackson State took the #9 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Mississippi.
Jackson State was ranked #615 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Mississippi, Jackson State came in at #7.
The total graduate student population at Jackson State is made up of 77.0% women and 23.0% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 88.5% of the graduate student population at Jackson State. Jackson State is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 4.9% of the graduate student population. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $8,270 | $8,270 |
| Fees | $175 | $1,175 |
After obtaining their master's degree from Jackson State, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $38,190. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 35% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from Jackson State earn an average salary of $55,403 during the early years of their career. When comparing to other doctorate degree holders, that's on the low side. It's about 26% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Jackson State University.
Contact details for Jackson State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1400 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217 |
| Phone: | 601-979-2121 |
| Website: | https://www.jsums.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/JacksonState |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/jacksonstateU |
Around 82.9% of Jackson State graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 70.5% of grad students took all of their classes online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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