Is Strayer University-Mississippi Worth It?

The financial return at Strayer University-Mississippi is weak. You'll graduate with a typical debt of $40,621 against median earnings of $40,092 a year, meaning your loan balance roughly equals a full year of pay a decade after enrolling. That one-to-one ratio is a warning sign, not a break-even.

Your major decides everything here. Information Science and Computer and Information Sciences are the only programs that clearly clear their debt load, paying $65,355 and $61,144 while carrying debt near $40,000. Pick one of those and the math works. Business lands around $50,000 but comes with the heaviest debt of any listed program at $43,122, so the cushion is thin. Accounting and Criminal Justice are the traps: both pay in the low $40,000s while borrowers owe roughly $41,600, so you'd finish owing about as much as you make and stuck paying it down slowly on a Jackson-area salary.

The specific risk is that this is a for-profit school where nearly every listed program pushes debt past $40,000 regardless of what it pays. There's no low-debt path on this list. If you don't finish, you keep the debt and lose the salary bump that made it worth borrowing.

This school fits you if you're committed to the tech tracks and want the online, working-adult format to fit around a job. If you're aiming at accounting, criminal justice, or general business, a lower-cost public option in Mississippi will leave you with the same salary and far less debt.

The heavy Pell presence means many of you come in on lower incomes, which makes the flat, high debt across programs harder to absorb. Borrow only what the tech-track earnings can actually repay, and treat the sub-$45,000 programs as not worth this price.