2025 Best Nursing Practice Doctor's Degree Schools in Mississippi

Nursing Practice is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #7 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Mississippi to determine which ones were the best for nursing practice students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 93 doctor's degrees in nursing practice to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Nursing Practice School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of nursing practice for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on nursing practice students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other nursing practice students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized nursing practice related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for nursing practice students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The nursing practice school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Nursing Practice Doctor's Degree Schools in Mississippi.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Nursing Practice in Mississippi

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in nursing practice.

Top Mississippi Schools for a Doctorate in Nursing Practice

1

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

47 Annual Graduates

University of Southern Mississippi is a great option for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in nursing practice. Located in the city of Hattiesburg, Southern Miss is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in nursing practice from University of Southern Mississippi

2

University of Mississippi
University, MS

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

21 Annual Graduates

University of Mississippi is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in nursing practice. Ole Miss is a very large public university located in the town of University.More information about a doctorate in nursing practice from University of Mississippi

3

Delta State University
Cleveland, MS

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

15 Annual Graduates

Delta State University is a good option for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in nursing practice. Delta State University is a small public university located in the town of Cleveland.More information about a doctorate in nursing practice from Delta State University

Best Nursing Practice Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Nursing Practice Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	217	511
North Carolina	190	282
Georgia	190	86
Virginia	182	122
Tennessee	150	180
Louisiana	146	106
Alabama	139	241
South Carolina	135	35
Kentucky	119	214
Arkansas	74	65
West Virginia	61	10

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Rankings in Majors Related to Nursing Practice

Nursing Practice is one of 23 different types of Nursing programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Nursing Practice

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing Administration	23
Nursing Science	8

Notes and References

• 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.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle. More about our data sources and methodologies.