Mississippi College Overview

Mississippi College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Clinton, Mississippi. Clinton is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

What Is Mississippi College Known For?

• The highest award offered at MC is the doctor's degree.
• For the 2017-2018 academic year, 49% of the faculty were full-time.
• The average MC student graduates in 4.2 years. That's better than the national average of 4.4 years.

Mississippi College Rankings

Out of the 30 colleges in Mississippi, MC is ranked at #4.

Our rankings are based on an outcomes-based approach rather than subjective ones used by other media outlets. As such, we utilize data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard, among other sources. Visit our rankings and methodology section to learn more.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at MC.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#8	Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#8	Best Value Medical Illustration & Informatics Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#13	Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#21	Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#29	Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#35	Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#37	Best Value Allied Health Professions Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#38	Best Value Law Enforcement & Firefighting Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#45	Best Value Accounting Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#58	Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards MC has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#1	Best Value Colleges for Programs for Foreign Lawyers	College Factual
#13	Best Accounting and Business/Management Schools	College Factual
#14	Best Value Colleges for Law	College Factual
#35	Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#43	Best Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Master’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#67	Best Criminal Justice Schools	College Factual

Where Is Mississippi College?

Contact details for MC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	200 South Capitol Street, Clinton, MS 39058
Phone:	601-925-3000
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/mississippicollege
Twitter:	http://www.twitter.com/misscollege

How Do I Get Into MC?

You can apply to MC online at: apply.mc.edu/application

Admission Requirements for MC

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	recommended
High School Rank	recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into MC?

The acceptance rate at MC is 29%, which means the school is highly selective when deciding who will be admitted and who won't. Even if you have great grades and test scores, that may not be enough. So be sure to look for ways to make your application memorable.

Approximately 38% of accepted students are men and 62% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 33%, and the acceptance rate for women is 27%.

Average Test Scores

About 10% of students accepted to MC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 600 and 650. Math scores were between 540 and 610.

MC received ACT scores from 91% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 21 and 32. Math scores were between 18 and 27. Composite scores were between 21 and 29.

Can I Afford Mississippi College?

The overall average net price of MC is $24,562. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At MC, approximately 42% of students took out student loans averaging $6,253 a year. That adds up to $25,012 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at MC is 6.9%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

Mississippi College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,757 undergraduate students at MC, with 2,291 being full-time and 466 being part-time.

There are also 1,910 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,291 full-time undergraduates at MC, 40% are male and 60% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Mississippi College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	49
Black or African American	356
Hispanic or Latino	95
White	1,674
International Students	67
Other Races/Ethnicities	50

Geographic Diversity

Mississippi students aren't the only ones who study at Mississippi College. At this time, 19 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 47 countries are represented at MC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Saudi Arabia, China, and India.

Online Learning at Mississippi College

In 2019-2020, 1,969 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at MC has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 12th most popular in Mississippi for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of MC

The following table shows how MC is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Communication & Journalism (Other)	#1	#1
Other Engineering	#10	#1
Finance & Financial Management	#30	#24
Medical Illustration & Informatics	#40	#13
Legal Support Services	#43	#34
Management Information Systems	#55	#34
Legal Professions	#58	#46
Communication & Journalism	#75	#25

Online Growth Rankings of MC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Mississippi College was 36.4%. This is the #805 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at MC regardless of major.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of MC majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Criminal Justice & Corrections	6%
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting	16%
Medical Illustration & Informatics	67%

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at MC ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at MC.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Other Engineering	#10
Public Relations & Advertising	#26
Medical Illustration & Informatics	#27
Engineering	#82
Communication & Journalism	#95
Criminal Justice & Corrections	#245
Nursing	#285
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting	#320

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Mississippi College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
General Biology	65	0	133	0	198
Nursing	137	0	0	0	137
Law	0	0	0	111	111
Educational Administration	0	1	79	16	96
Business Administration & Management	46	0	34	0	80
Curriculum & Instruction	0	0	78	0	78
Health & Physical Education	62	0	11	0	73
Special Education	0	0	63	0	63
Teacher Education Grade Specific	28	0	21	0	49
Accounting	25	1	19	0	45
General Psychology	41	0	0	0	41
Teacher Education Subject Specific	32	0	2	0	34
Criminal Justice & Corrections	21	0	13	0	34
Mental & Social Health Services	0	0	29	0	29
Communication & Media Studies	26	0	0	0	26
Allied Health Professions	0	0	26	0	26
Design & Applied Arts	18	0	4	0	22
Finance & Financial Management	14	1	6	0	21
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	0	0	0	18	18
Marketing	15	0	0	0	15
Social Work	15	0	0	0	15
Chemistry	11	0	3	0	14
Public Health	0	0	13	0	13
History	12	0	0	0	12
Mathematics	8	0	4	0	12
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	0	0	11	0	11
Legal Support Services	9	2	0	0	11
Religious Studies	11	0	0	0	11
Computer Science	7	0	3	0	10
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	10	0	0	0	10
Political Science & Government	9	0	1	0	10
Student Counseling	0	0	9	0	9
Writing Studies	9	0	0	0	9
Public Relations & Advertising	6	0	2	0	8
Music	6	0	2	0	8
Electrical Engineering	7	0	0	0	7
Literature	7	0	0	0	7
International Studies	7	0	0	0	7
Health/Medical Prep Programs	6	0	0	0	6
Sociology	6	0	0	0	6
Fine & Studio Arts	2	0	4	0	6
General English Literature	2	0	3	0	5
Communication & Journalism (Other)	0	0	4	0	4
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	4	0	0	0	4
Entrepreneurial Studies	3	0	0	0	3
Medical Illustration & Informatics	0	0	3	0	3
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	2	0	0	0	2
Management Information Systems	0	0	2	0	2
Computer Information Systems	2	0	0	0	2
Romance Languages	2	0	0	0	2
Health Sciences & Services	0	2	0	0	2
Sacred Music	2	0	0	0	2
Legal Research	0	0	1	0	1
Physics	1	0	0	0	1
Computer Programming	0	0	0	0	0
Teaching English or French	0	0	0	0	0
Other Engineering	0	0	0	0	0
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other)	0	0	0	0	0
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	0	0	0	0
Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	696	7	583	145	1,431

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Robby Followell under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.