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Medicine and Health Schools in Jackson

Jackson, MS (population: 171,210) has six medicine and health schools within its city limits. Millsaps College, the highest ranked school in the city with a medicine and health program, has a total student population of 1,117. It is the 2048th highest ranked school in the USA and the 11th highest in the state of Mississippi (#1 is Creations College of Cosmetology).

Medicine and Health students from Jackson schools who go on to become medicine and health professionals, office administrators, massage therapists, trainers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 271,710 people working as medical and health services managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $90,970. Also, Registered nurses make on average $66,530 per year and there are about 2,583,770 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Jackson area alone, there are 7,580 employed registered nurses earning an average salary of $59,350. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $75,210/yr and there are 540 employed.

Jackson lies in Hinds county, which is one of the 35 counties in Mississippi. Overall, the Jackson area has 245,940 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.8% unemployment rate, $17.60/hr average worker wage, and a $36,600 average annual salary. Thus, about 2.211 out of every 1000 jobs in Jackson are held by medical and health services managers, and 30.826/1000 are held by registered nurses.

Of the 6 medicine and health schools in Jackson, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Belhaven College comes out as the most expensive ($19,298/yr) for medicine and health students, with Jackson State University as the lowest, reported at only $10,375/yr.

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