2021 Best Colleges in Mississippi for Students from Jamaica

When pursuing a degree in today's world, international students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Colleges for Jamaican Students in Mississippi ranking - to help you make that decision.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Mississippi to determine which ones were the best for Jamaican students in Mississippi. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the percentage of international students on campus.

See what other factors we include in our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in Mississippi for Students from Jamaica

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Alcorn State University
Alcorn State, MS

$8,176 Avg Tuition & Fees

4.3% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named Alcorn State University the best school for Jamaican students in Mississippi working on their bachelor’s degree. Alcorn State is a small public school situated in Alcorn State, Mississippi. It awarded 565 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 4.3% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as India, Nigeria, and Jamaica come to Alcorn State to study.

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2

Mississippi Valley State University
Itta Bena, MS

$7,068 Avg Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Valley State University. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Located in Itta Bena, Mississippi, the small public school handed out 286 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students studying at Mississippi Valley State University come from such countries as Kazakhstan, Nigeria, and Jamaica.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.