2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Psychology in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Mississippi” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Psychology is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 4th of all the majors we analyze. In 2021-2022, 143,648 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In , general psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $30,411 and had an average of $24,592 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 1,018 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,067 and $23,304 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $46,701 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Mississippi” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general psychology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general psychology.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Mississippi

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi master’s degree psychology students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Psychology in Mississippi

1

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#5 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Mississippi. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Mississippi. Located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, this fairly large public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified masters’s psychology students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about General Psychology at University of Southern Mississippi

2

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

#2 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mississippi landed the #2 spot on the list. Ole Miss is a large school located in University, Mississippi that handed out 8 masters’s psychology degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Full University of Mississippi General Psychology Report

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Mississippi. Located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, this large public school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified masters’s psychology students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about General Psychology at Mississippi State

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.

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