Bachelor's · University, Mississippi
Is Accounting and Related Services at University of Mississippi worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $64,903
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $91,818
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $58k (likely $58k – $67k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $59k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MS
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.1 years (likely 1.8–2.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $345k (likely $265k – $428k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.04M (likely $843k – $1.24M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 70%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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📈 Getting ready in high school
Students heading toward business & money majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Statistics
- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
IB Higher Level
- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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Other majors at University of Mississippi
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (First professional)$123,728
- Dentistry (Doctoral)$112,956
- Medicine (Doctoral)$110,599
- Chemical Engineering (Bachelor's)$107,548
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$106,595
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$99,129
- Education, General (Doctoral)$94,295
- Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's)$93,311
- Taxation (Master's)$92,920
- Law (First professional)$92,069
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other (Master's)$88,292
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$87,958
Accounting and Related Services at other schools in Mississippi
- Millsaps College$72,642
- Mississippi State University$70,904
- Strayer University-Mississippi$66,108
- University of Southern Mississippi$65,861
- Mississippi Christian University$63,885
- Belhaven University$60,247
- Jackson State University$59,996
- Mississippi University for Women$52,829