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2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
2 Degrees Awarded
$9,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Social Work is the 12th most popular major in the country with 57,618 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, social work graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,459 and had an average of $30,084 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 580 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,963 and $26,044 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,708 and $105,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality social work programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the social work program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi doctor’s degree social work students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work (Income $30-$48k) in Mississippi

#1

Jackson State University

Jackson, Mississippi
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jackson State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Jackson, Mississippi, this medium-sized public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s social work students in 2019-2020.

Jackson State also made our “Best Social Work Doctor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Jackson State are $9,445, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Social Work at Jackson State University

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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