Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 20.5-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Source: IPEDS Graduation Rates (GR) — Pell/SSL cohort, 2024 cohort.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 97 Title IV programs, 27 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 1 fails. 69 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing27 · 27.8%
- No Data69 · 71.1%
- Failing1 · 1.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Near the line (±5%)
Programs within five points of the pass line, one cohort year from flipping.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Programmatic accreditations · 6
Action history · 10
- Dec 2023Renewal of AccreditationSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jun 2022Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Feb 2022Renewal of AccreditationCommission on Collegiate Nursing Education · Nursing (CNURED) - Nursing education programs at the baccalaureate degree levels
- Jan 2022Grant Substantive Change: ProgramSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Aug 2021Grant Substantive Change: ProgramSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 989 students received $5.6M in Pell grants, alongside $36.3M in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 1,416 borrowers who entered repayment, 15 (1.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Mississippi College
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 10
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus6
Includes 3 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
- Race1
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Mississippi College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Mississippi College selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectMississippi College | 59% | — | 4,164 | $27,712 | Doctoral/Professional |
| 49% | 49.8% | 4,213 | $15,676 | Doctoral/Professional | |
| 60% | 60.3% | 5,321 | $14,258 | Doctoral/Professional | |
| 66% | 77.0% | 4,454 | $30,298 | Doctoral/Professional | |
| 59% | 93.1% | 4,250 | $23,696 | Doctoral/Professional | |
| 55% | 82.0% | 4,147 | $28,354 | Doctoral/Professional | |
| Peer group median | 59% | 77.0% | 4,232 | $25,704 |
Institutions like Mississippi College
Explore the federal data for institutions in Mississippi College's comparison group.
- Doctoral/ProfessionalMississippi
Belhaven University
Grad rate49%Admit rate49.8%Enrollment4,213Net price$15,676View data - Doctoral/ProfessionalMississippi
William Carey University
Grad rate60%Admit rate60.3%Enrollment5,321Net price$14,258View data - Doctoral/ProfessionalVirginia
Shenandoah University
Grad rate66%Admit rate77.0%Enrollment4,454Net price$30,298View data - Doctoral/ProfessionalLouisiana
Loyola University New Orleans
Grad rate59%Admit rate93.1%Enrollment4,250Net price$23,696View data - Doctoral/ProfessionalFlorida
Palm Beach Atlantic University
Grad rate55%Admit rate82.0%Enrollment4,147Net price$28,354View data
Mississippi College Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The mission of the Office of Institutional Research is to define, collect, and maintain institutional data, and to provide accurate and timely institutional information to both internal and external constituents for the purposes of describing, recording, and publishing institutional attributes and measures of effectiveness.
Visit IR office page- Keith RandazzoVice Provost for Academic Innovation and Director, Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness, Associate Professor, Kinesiology
Common Data Set
Mississippi College's own annual Common Data Set: the most detailed self-reported reference for selectivity, cost, outcomes, and the student body.
Source publications
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