Mississippi State University

How it scores

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 1,240 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country (United States).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Admit rate

77.6% src

Average SAT

1,219 src

Yield (admits who enrol)

24% src

Median earnings 10 years after entry

$51,513 src

40-year return on investment (Georgetown CEW)

$1.67M src

Graduation rate (6 years)

67% src

Rhodes Scholars, 2021–26

0 src

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)

11 src

Heads of state or government (Wikidata)

1 src

Students (undergraduate / total)

18,397 / 20,140

Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 872. On strength alone: 794. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field

8.7% (7.9%–9.5%)

Papers in the top 1% of their field

0.8% (0.5%–1.0%)

Top-10% papers (fractional count)

249

All papers (fractional count)

2,876

International co-authored

35.5%

Open access

56.8%

Papers from 2020–23 since retracted

1 (0.14 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Position over time

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.