2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences in Mississippi

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General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences is the 33rd most popular major in the country with 30,811 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Mississippi, there were 394 general health services/allied health/health sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 290 general health services/allied health/health sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,115 and $12,741 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in Mississippi” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general health services/allied health/health sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in general health services/allied health/health sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in Mississippi”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences in Mississippi

1

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

#13 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in Mississippi. Located in Perkinston, Mississippi, this medium-sized public school awarded 280 diplomas to qualified associates’s health studies students in 2021-2022.

Read full report on General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

2

Holmes Community College
Goodman, Mississippi

#9 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Health Studies Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Holmes Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Holmes Community College is located in Goodman, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 10 associates’s health studies degrees to qualified students.

Full Holmes Community College General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences Report

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 Sandra M. Palumbo.