-28%
Rust College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Rust College are 28% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($32.3k vs $44.8k).
State hub · Mississippi · vintage 2025-05
Mississippi Colleges
Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Mississippi — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags across Mississippi
Top signals rolled up across Mississippiinstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.
-28%
Mississippi Valley State University · Public bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Mississippi Valley State University are 28% below the public bachelor's-predominant peer median ($31.9k vs $44.1k).
-22%
Tougaloo College · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Tougaloo College are 22% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($34.7k vs $44.8k).
-14%
Mississippi Delta Community College · Public associate's-predominant peer
10-year earnings at Mississippi Delta Community College are 14% below the public associate's-predominant peer median ($28.4k vs $33.0k).
8.9%
Tougaloo College · Debt-to-earnings
Debt-to-earnings ratio of 8.9% at Tougaloo College exceeds the 8% gainful-employment threshold ($23.1k debt amortized over 10 years vs $34.7k earnings).
8.4%
Jackson State University · Debt-to-earnings
Debt-to-earnings ratio of 8.4% at Jackson State University exceeds the 8% gainful-employment threshold ($24.8k debt amortized over 10 years vs $39.1k earnings).
SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW
The numbers
Statewide aggregates across Mississippi Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
46
Title-IV main campuses2,489
with published outcomes$33,017
across institutions46.9%
median across institutions120,698
latest historical vintage$7,463
median across institutionsSECTION 02 · LONG ARC
How Mississippi has shifted
Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.
+33%
Statewide · completion · 150% rose
39.7% → 52.8%
+26%
Statewide · undergrad enrollment rose
95,777 → 120,698
+520%
Statewide · in-state tuition rose
$1,204 → $7,463
SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS
26 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings
Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.
Showing 26 of 46 Title-IV institutions · Public 23 · Private 9 · For-profit 14
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS
Highest 10-year median earnings
Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION
Highest 150%-time completion
Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.
BY CITY
All 36 Mississippi cities with colleges
Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.
- Aberdeen
- Alcorn State
- Blue Mountain
- Booneville
- Clarksdale
- Cleveland
- Clinton
- Columbus
- Corinth
- Decatur
- Ellisville
- Fulton
- Goodman
- Greenville
- Gulfport
- Hattiesburg
- Holly Springs
- Itta Bena
- Jackson
- Laurel
- Meridian
- Mississippi State
- Moorhead
- Pearl
- Perkinston
- Pontotoc
- Poplarville
- Raymond
- Ridgeland
- Ripley
- Scooba
- Senatobia
- Summit
- Tougaloo
- University
- Wesson
METHODOLOGY
What these numbers are — and aren't
Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.