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2023 Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi

5 Schools Ranked
$19,246 Avg Student Debt

It's not easy to decide which teaching program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in Mississippi to see which ones offered the best graduate certificate programs for teaching students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

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Top Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi
$9,220 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Mississippi State University the best school in Mississippi for teaching students working on their graduate certificate.

Mississippi State does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. During the 2019-2020 year, about 65% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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#2

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi
$9,204 Average Tuition & Fees
$19,246 Avg Student Debt

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Southern Mississippi helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best teaching schools in Mississippi.

On average, graduate certificate students take out $19,246 in loans while pursuing their degree.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at Southern Miss. In 2019-2020 about 86% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#3

Mississippi College

Clinton, Mississippi
$12,796 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Mississippi College. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi list.

MC does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In 2019-2020 about 43% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#4

Belhaven University

Jackson, Mississippi
$10,980 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Belhaven University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi list.

One thing to take note of is that Belhaven does offer online graduate classes in some areas. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 97% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

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#5

Jackson State University

Jackson, Mississippi
$8,445 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 5 schools in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Jackson State University landed the # 5 spot on the list.

Online graduate courses are available at Jackson State, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 78% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.

References

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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.

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