{"id":80353,"date":"2018-07-17T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=80353"},"modified":"2018-08-08T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:41:11","slug":"um-ranks-best-sec-job-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/um-ranks-best-sec-job-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"UM Ranks Best in Mississippi for Job Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Data on job placement rates over a decade show&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/olemiss.edu\/\">University of Mississippi<\/a>&nbsp;graduates are the best in the state at finding employment and keeping it, according to a new ranking from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zippia.com\/\">Zippia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking takes into account 10 years&#8217; worth of data on job placement rates as part of Zippia&#8217;s rating for the best colleges in each state for finding a job. The data shows that after 10 years,&nbsp;90.8 percent of UM graduates are still employed with a median income of $52,700.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not only the best percentage of all Mississippi schools, but it also tops a number of institutions in the Southeastern Conference.&nbsp;UM ranked fifth in the SEC, according to the data.<\/p>\n<p>The top university in the nation was Virginia Military Institute, which has a 96.6 percent job placement rate.<\/p>\n<p>Zippia is a career expert site based in San Mateo, California.&nbsp;To see the full ranking, click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zippia.com\/advice\/best-colleges-for-jobs\/\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Data on job placement rates over a decade show&nbsp;University of Mississippi&nbsp;graduates are the best in the state at finding employment and keeping it, according to a new ranking from&nbsp;Zippia.com. The ranking takes into account 10 years&#8217; worth of data on job placement rates as part of Zippia&#8217;s rating for the best colleges<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/um-ranks-best-sec-job-placement\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the story &#x2026;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UM Ranks Best in Mississippi for Job Placement - Ole Miss News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/um-ranks-best-sec-job-placement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UM Ranks Best in Mississippi for Job Placement - Ole Miss News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Data on job placement rates over a decade show&nbsp;University of Mississippi&nbsp;graduates are the best in the state at finding employment and keeping it, according to a new ranking from&nbsp;Zippia.com. 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