2025 Best General Education Schools in Mississippi
3Colleges in Mississippi
575General Education Degrees Awarded
Ranked #31 in popularity, general education is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Education Schools in Mississippi ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 575 degrees in general education annually.
Your choice of general education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Education Schools in Mississippi ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the general education degree levels they offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in general education needs to take a look at University of Southern Mississippi. Southern Miss is a large public university located in the small city of Hattiesburg. This university ranks 8th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were about 38 general education students who graduated with this degree at Southern Miss in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat University of Mississippi if you want to pursue a degree in general education. Located in the town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #550 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Ole Miss is a great university overall.
There were approximately 23 general education students who graduated with this degree at Ole Miss in the most recent year we have data available.
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Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general education. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a medium-sized public college located in the rural area of Perkinston. This college ranks 10th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were roughly 126 general education students who graduated with this degree at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
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Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
Your choice of general education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
