2024 Best General Journalism Schools in Mississippi
3Colleges in Mississippi
115Journalism Degrees Awarded
Ranked #69 in popularity, general journalism is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Mississippi to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of general journalism. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 115 degrees in general journalism during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Your choice of general journalism school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general journalism schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Journalism Schools in Mississippi list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Journalism in Mississippi
The schools below may not offer all types of journalism degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's hard to beat University of Mississippi if you wish to pursue a degree in general journalism. Located in the town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #361 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Ole Miss is a great university overall.
There were approximately 62 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at Ole Miss in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Southern Mississippi is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general journalism. Southern Miss is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Hattiesburg. This university ranks 5th out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were approximately 25 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at Southern Miss in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in general journalism needs to check out Rust College. Rust College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the distant town of Holly Springs. This college ranks 26th out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were approximately 17 general journalism students who graduated with this degree at Rust College in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.
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Your choice of general journalism school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general journalism schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
