2022 Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Geography & Cartography is the 107th most popular major in the country with 8,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, geography and cartography graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,126 and had an average of $23,577 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 16 geography and cartography graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 geography and cartography graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,851 and $25,430 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great geography and cartography programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the geography and cartography program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography (Income $0-$30k) in Mississippi

#1

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$13,102 Average Net Price

$33,993 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Mississippi. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $0-$30k list. Southern Miss is a fairly large public school situated in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It awarded 13 bachelors’s geography degrees in 2019-2020.

Southern Miss also took the #1 spot in our “Best Geography & Cartography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Southern Mississippi is $13,102 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Geography students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Southern Miss Geography & Cartography Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography (Income $0-$30k)

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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