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2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Schools Ranked
$13,865 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$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. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 5 schools in Mississippi to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for teaching students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi
30 Total Awards
$24,900 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Mississippi State University the best value school in Mississippi for teaching students working on their graduate certificate. Located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, the large public school awarded 30 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Mississippi State are $24,900 per year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Mississippi State does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In fact, around 65% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

Mississippi State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi list.

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#2

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi
21 Total Awards
$11,204 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Southern Mississippi is a great place for teaching students working on their graduate certificate who want the most bang for their educational buck. Hattiesburg, Mississippi is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out graduate certificates to 21 students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Southern Miss are $11,204 per year. Graduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $19,246 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Southern Miss does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 86% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Southern Miss also took the #2 spot in our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi rankings.

Full University of Southern Mississippi Report

#3

Belhaven University

Jackson, Mississippi
98 Total Awards
$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 #3 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi list. Belhaven University is a small private not-for-profit school located in Jackson, Mississippi that handed out 98 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Belhaven are $10,980 per year.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at Belhaven. During the 2019-2020 year, about 97% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

Belhaven did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi list.

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#4

Jackson State University

Jackson, Mississippi
81 Total Awards
$9,445 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Jackson State University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Mississippi. Located in Jackson, Mississippi, the medium-sized public school handed out 81 graduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Jackson State are $9,445 per year.

You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at Jackson State. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 78% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Jackson State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi list.

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#5

Mississippi College

Clinton, Mississippi
1 Total Awards
$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 #5 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi list. This small private not-for-profit school is located in Clinton, Mississippi, and it awarded 1 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at MC are $12,796 per year.

One thing to take note of is that MC does offer online graduate classes in some areas. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 43% took at least some of their classes online.

MC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Mississippi list.

Full Mississippi College Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 5 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.

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