2025 Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Mississippi

Nursing is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #2 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Mississippi to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of nursing. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 163 master's degrees in nursing during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Nursing School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of nursing for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to nursing students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other nursing students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt nursing students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized nursing related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for nursing students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Nursing Schools

The nursing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Mississippi.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Nursing in Mississippi

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in nursing.

Top Mississippi Schools for a Master's in Nursing

1

University of Mississippi
University, MS

113 Annual Graduates

$92,875 Median Starting Salary

It's hard to beat University of Mississippi if you want to pursue a master's degree in nursing. Located in the town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a very large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the nursing program report average early career earnings of $92,875.

More information about a master’s in nursing from University of Mississippi

2

Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, MS

19 Annual Graduates

$100,323 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in nursing needs to look into Mississippi University for Women. Located in the town of Columbus, MUW is a public university with a small student population.

Master's recipients from the nursing program at Mississippi University for Women get $3,108 more than the typical graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.

More information about a master’s in nursing from Mississippi University for Women

3

Delta State University
Cleveland, MS

12 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Delta State University if you want to pursue a master's degree in nursing. Located in the town of Cleveland, Delta State University is a public university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in nursing from Delta State University

Best Nursing Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Nursing Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	208	2,300
Georgia	190	1,353
Virginia	182	728
North Carolina	178	931
Tennessee	166	1,147
Alabama	151	1,997
Kentucky	147	1,361
Louisiana	147	340
South Carolina	146	369
Arkansas	121	229
West Virginia	112	145

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Rankings in Majors Related to Nursing

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Nursing Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing	152
Clinical Nurse Leader	6
Registered Nursing	5

Majors Similar to Nursing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Health	128
Communication Sciences	105
Health & Medical Administrative Services	87
Mental & Social Health Services	83
Allied Health Professions	72
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	38
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science	11
Medical Science	4
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	3

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle. More about our data sources and methodologies.