With all of the options student athletes have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Division III Women's Softball in Mississippi ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
We analyzed 2 colleges and universities across Mississippi to determine which were the best for D3 Women's Softball athletes in Mississippi. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality of the school, the school's athletic competitiveness, and the amount of athletic aid per student - to make this determination. Having a great sports team is not enough - the school must also focus on academic excellence.
Since one ranking on its own is not enough to give you a complete understanding of your educational options, you can refine this list by location. We've also developed a number of other tools and rankings based on other factors. These other rankings highlight colleges that excel in other factors such as value or diversity as well as schools that excel in serving different groups of students such as online students or returnings adults.
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Top Colleges in Mississippi for D3 Women's Softball athletes in Mississippi
Our analysis found Millsaps College to be the best school for D3 Women’s Softball athletes in Mississippi in this year’s ranking. Millsaps College is a small private not-for-profit school located in Jackson, Mississippi that handed out 182 bachelor’s degrees in .
The D3 Women’s Softball team at Millsaps brought home $137,222 in revenue in a single year.
The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Millsaps also made our overall quality list, coming in at #1.
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The excellent sports programs at Belhaven University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for D3 Women’s Softball athletes in Mississippi. Located in Jackson, Mississippi, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 476 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in .
Belhaven brought in $339,388 while tallying up $289,688 in expenses for its D3 Women’s Softball team. Thus, the team actually made $49,700, which isn’t bad at all.
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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.
The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
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%.
