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. Factors that go into these rankings include how much money students make after graduation, the number of FTE students per instructor, and how much debt students take on to attend the school.
University of Southern Mississippi landed the #774 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
Southern Miss also ranked #6 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Mississippi.
Southern Miss was ranked #415 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, Southern Miss came in at #3.
The total graduate student population at Southern Miss is made up of 66.2% women and 33.8% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 29.8% of the graduate students who attend Southern Miss are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Southern Miss is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 5.1% of the graduate student population. The chart below shows the breakdown of graduate student demographics at the school. You can click on it for a more detailed view.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $9,094 | $11,094 |
| Fees | $110 | $110 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from Southern Miss enter careers with an average starting salary of $47,276. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 19% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from Southern Miss earn an average salary of $117,199 during the early years of their career. That's about 56% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
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Contact details for Southern Miss are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 118 College Drive # 0001, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001 |
| Phone: | 601-266-1000 |
| Website: | https://www.usm.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/usm.edu |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/southernmiss |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 62.6% of the graduate students at Southern Miss took at least one online course. For that same period, 48.3% 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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