2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 38,020 people earned their degree in public health, making the major the 27th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, public health graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,740 and had an average of $35,895 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 215 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,667 and $34,528 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,708 and $105,501 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public health programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the public health program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi doctor’s degree public health students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health in Mississippi (With Aid)

#1

Jackson State University

Jackson, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$9,445 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,798 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jackson State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid list. This medium-sized school is located in Jackson, Mississippi, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s public health degrees in 2019-2020.

Jackson State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Public Health Doctor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Jackson State are $9,445.

Read full report on Public Health at Jackson State

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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