University of Southern Mississippi Business Programs

University of Southern Mississippi is a public institution situated in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The location of Southern Miss is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

University of Southern Mississippi Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Southern Miss.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#2	Most Popular Managerial Economics Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#3	Best Value Managerial Economics Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#5	Best Value Other Business & Marketing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#14	Most Popular Other Business & Marketing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#28	Best Value International Business Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#97	Best Value Marketing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#136	Best Value Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#188	Best Value Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#227	Most Popular Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Southern Miss has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#3	Best Value Colleges for Business/Managerial Economics	College Factual
#3	Best Value Colleges for Business Economics	College Factual
#8	Best Value Colleges for Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing	College Factual
#9	Best Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing Colleges for Veterans	College Factual
#13	Best Business/Managerial Economics Colleges for Veterans	College Factual
#147	Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges for Veterans	College Factual

Where Is University of Southern Mississippi?

Contact details for Southern Miss are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	118 College Drive # 0001, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
Phone:	601-266-1000
Website:	www.usm.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/usm.edu
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/southernmiss

How Do I Get Into Southern Miss?

You can apply to Southern Miss online at: https://apps.usm.edu/admissions/ugapp/

Admission Requirements for Southern Miss

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Southern Miss?

Southern Miss has the high acceptance rate of 96%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 32% of accepted students are men and 68% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 95%, and the acceptance rate for women is 97%.

Average Test Scores

About 0% of students accepted to Southern Miss submitted their SAT scores.Southern Miss received ACT scores from 100% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 19 and 28. Math scores were between 17 and 25. Composite scores were between 19 and 26.

Can I Afford University of Southern Mississippi?

The overall average net price of Southern Miss is $20,205. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Southern Miss, approximately 61% of students took out student loans averaging $6,907 a year. That adds up to $27,628 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Southern Miss is 7.6%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

University of Southern Mississippi Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 11,451 undergraduate students at Southern Miss, with 9,644 being full-time and 1,807 being part-time.

There are also 3,155 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 9,644 full-time undergraduates at Southern Miss, 34% are male and 66% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of University of Southern Mississippi students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	127
Black or African American	2,820
Hispanic or Latino	351
White	5,802
International Students	152
Other Races/Ethnicities	392

Geographic Diversity

Mississippi students aren't the only ones who study at University of Southern Mississippi. At this time, 30 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 70 countries are represented at Southern Miss. The most popular countries sending students to the school are India, Nepal, and China.

Online Learning at University of Southern Mississippi

In 2019-2020, 14,002 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Southern Miss has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 8th most popular in Mississippi for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Southern Miss

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at University of Southern Mississippi was $8,896 for in-state students. Out-of-state students paid $10,896. The following table shows how Southern Miss is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Transportation/Mobility Management	#1	#1
Other Business, Management & Marketing	#1	#15
Business Management & Marketing	#1	#15
Other Hospitality Administration/Management	#4	#1
Human Resources Development	#4	#3
Hospitality Management	#16	#19
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	#25	#13
Human Resource Management	#28	#16

Online Growth Rankings of Southern Miss

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at University of Southern Mississippi was 49.6%. This is the #572 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Southern Miss regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Southern Miss ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Southern Miss.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Transportation/Mobility Management	#7
Other Business, Management & Marketing	#10
Business Management & Marketing	#10
Human Resources Development	#18
Human Resource Management	#78
General Business Administration and Management	#324
Business Administration & Management	#432

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

University of Southern Mississippi Business Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Basic Certificate	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	0	176	3	58	0	237
Accounting	0	79	0	20	0	99
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	4	57	0	0	0	61
Business Management & Marketing	0	32	0	0	0	32
Finance	0	29	0	0	0	29
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	0	28	0	0	0	28
Business Economics	0	0	2	14	0	16
Human Resources Development	0	0	0	11	4	15
Other Hospitality Administration/Management	0	11	0	0	0	11
International Business/Trade/Commerce	0	10	0	0	0	10
Other Marketing	0	8	0	0	0	8
Development Economics & International Development	0	0	0	0	8	8
Transportation/Mobility Management	0	0	0	7	0	7
Fashion Merchandising	2	5	0	0	0	7
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	0	7	0	0	0	7
General Economics	0	5	0	0	0	5
Public Relations	0	0	0	1	0	1
Hotel/Motel Administration/Management	0	0	0	0	0	0
General Management Information Systems	0	0	0	0	0	0
Advertising	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	6	447	5	111	12	581

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Dudemanfellabra under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.