NextChapter

Mississippi colleges: career services and alumni support

36 colleges in Mississippi, and the job market their graduates enter. A career services or alumni staff member can claim their college’s page and set up a free workspace.

Give the platform to your job seekers, free.

Claim your page and get a free workspace for the people you serve.

Start here, free

Independent page. Not from or affiliated with the State of Mississippi.

The Mississippi job market

  • 3.3%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics, counties summed

  • 36

    colleges listed

    Source: IPEDS and the College Scorecard, U.S. Department of Education

Mississippi workforce boards · Mississippi by county and city

Colleges in Mississippi

Colleges in Mississippi
CollegeCityTypeStudentsClaim
Alcorn State UniversityAlcorn StatePublic 4-year2,363Claim page
Belhaven UniversityJacksonPrivate nonprofit 4-year1,471Claim page
Blue Mountain Christian UniversityBlue MountainPrivate nonprofit 4-year498Claim page
Board of Trustees-Mississippi State Institutions of Higher LearningJacksonPublic 4-yearClaim page
Coahoma Community CollegeClarksdalePublic 2-year1,144Claim page
Concorde Career College-SouthavenSouthavenPrivate for-profit 2-year115Claim page
Copiah-Lincoln Community CollegeWessonPublic 2-year1,922Claim page
Delta State UniversityClevelandPublic 4-year1,620Claim page
East Central Community CollegeDecaturPublic 2-year1,520Claim page
East Mississippi Community CollegeScoobaPublic 2-year2,838Claim page
Hinds Community CollegeRaymondPublic 2-year6,397Claim page
Holmes Community CollegeGoodmanPublic 2-year3,958Claim page
Itawamba Community CollegeFultonPublic 2-year4,167Claim page
Jackson State UniversityJacksonPublic 4-year4,600Claim page
Jones County Junior CollegeEllisvillePublic 2-year3,535Claim page
Meridian Community CollegeMeridianPublic 2-year2,156Claim page
Millsaps CollegeJacksonPrivate nonprofit 4-year549Claim page
Mississippi CollegeClintonPrivate nonprofit 4-year2,518Claim page
Mississippi Community College BoardJacksonPublic 2-yearClaim page
Mississippi Delta Community CollegeMoorheadPublic 2-year1,413Claim page
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community CollegePerkinstonPublic 2-year6,353Claim page
Mississippi State UniversityMississippi StatePublic 4-year18,397Claim page
Mississippi University for WomenColumbusPublic 4-year1,605Claim page
Mississippi Valley State UniversityItta BenaPublic 4-year1,439Claim page
Northeast Mississippi Community CollegeBoonevillePublic 2-year2,698Claim page
Northwest Mississippi Community CollegeSenatobiaPublic 2-year5,452Claim page
Pearl River Community CollegePoplarvillePublic 2-year4,903Claim page
Rust CollegeHolly SpringsPrivate nonprofit 4-year467Claim page
Southeastern Baptist CollegeLaurelPrivate nonprofit 4-year93Claim page
Southwest Mississippi Community CollegeSummitPublic 2-year1,474Claim page
Strayer University-MississippiJacksonPrivate for-profit 4-year882Claim page
Tougaloo CollegeTougalooPrivate nonprofit 4-year639Claim page
University of MississippiUniversityPublic 4-year21,473Claim page
University of Southern MississippiHattiesburgPublic 4-year10,075Claim page
Wesley Biblical SeminaryRidgelandPrivate nonprofit 4-year24Claim page
William Carey UniversityHattiesburgPrivate nonprofit 4-year2,201Claim page

College career fairs and employer events in Mississippi

Career fairs and employer events at colleges, plus hiring and business events nearby.

Higher education conferences in Mississippi

Conferences for college and university staff held in Mississippi: admissions, student affairs, advancement, institutional leadership. 1 with dates announced.

All conferences

Sources: college directory from IPEDS (U.S. Department of Education), 2-year and 4-year public, private non-profit and for-profit institutions; unemployment from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Mississippi unemployment benefits.

Mississippi layoff noticesMississippi rapid response