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Best Education Colleges in Mississippi
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This ranking scores 15 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
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Education programs in Mississippi ranked by outcomes and program concentration
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
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Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
William Carey University
Hattiesburg, MS
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Delta State University
Cleveland, MS
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University of Mississippi
University, MS
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William Carey University
Hattiesburg, MS · 2,201 students · Private nonprofit
Delta State University
Cleveland, MS · 1,620 students · Public
University of Mississippi
University, MS · 21,473 students · Public
Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Wesson, MS · 1,922 students · Public
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS · 18,397 students · Public
Itawamba Community College
Fulton, MS · 4,167 students · Public
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, MS · 1,605 students · Public
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS · 10,075 students · Public
Holmes Community College
Goodman, MS · 3,958 students · Public
Mississippi Valley State University
Itta Bena, MS · 1,439 students · Public
Mississippi College
Clinton, MS · 2,518 students · Private nonprofit
Blue Mountain Christian University
Blue Mountain, MS · 498 students · Private nonprofit
East Mississippi Community College
Scooba, MS · 2,838 students · Public
Jackson State University
Jackson, MS · 4,600 students · Public
Tougaloo College
Tougaloo, MS · 639 students · Private nonprofit
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David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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