University of Mississippi
Work PO Box 1848
University, MS 38677-1848
Work(662) 915-7226
Admissions E-mail: admissions@olemiss.edu
Web site: http://www.olemiss.edu
Tier 3
College Category:
National Universities
National Universities
Overview : University of Mississippi
| General Information | |
|---|---|
| Institutional Control: | Public |
| Year founded: | 1844 |
| Religious affiliation: | N/A |
| Academic calendar: | semester |
| Total number of undergraduates: | 12,762 |
| Setting: | rural |
| Endowment: | $471,300,000 |
| Fall Admissions | |
| Application deadline: | 7/20 |
| Application fee: | $25 |
| Fall 2008 Acceptance rate: | 83.4% |
| Selectivity: | selective |
| Expenses | |
| Costs: | 2009-2010 In-state: $5,106; Out-of-state: $13,050 |
| Mission | |
| School mission: | The University of Mississippi, one of the oldest but also most progressive public institutions of higher learning in the South, is a classical liberal arts institution that offers a selection of high-quality professional programs. The historic main campus is located in the picturesque city of Oxford, which combines the charm and safety of a small town with the sophistication of a larger city. With 100 academic programs to choose from, University of Mississippi students are exposed to a diversity of academic disciplines that emphasize cultural breadth, intellectual depth and independence of mind. They also participate in a full range of extracurricular and entertainment programs in a beautiful residential environment. Ranked among the nation's top 50 public research universities by the Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance, the university emphasizes strong classroom teaching supported by excellent library, laboratory and technical facilities. Known affectionately as Ole Miss, the university enrolls 17,441 students (18 percent of whom are minorities) on four campuses, including the Medical Center in Jackson. The campus in Oxford, home of the late Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner, is an incubator for writers and literary scholars and houses the College of Liberal Arts; the schools of Accountancy, Applied Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Pharmacy and Law; and the Graduate School, as well as 35 research centers and institutes. The Center for the Study of Southern Culture and William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation are located here, as are the nation's most extensive Blues Archive and Faulkner's papers. The complete library of the accountancy profession is housed in the J.D. Williams Library. More than $100 million in research is conducted annually, including world-class studies in atmospheric physics, cardiovascular disease, pharmaceutical sciences, physical acoustics, remote sensing, space law and tropical diseases. Ole Miss is the only public university in Mississippi to shelter a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honor society. The university is featured in The Student Guide to America's 100 Best College Buys and listed in The Student Guide to America's Best College Scholarships. The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College is recognized as one of the nation's three best honors colleges by Reader's Digest. The Croft Institute for International Studies provides students with intensive training that can lead to careers in law, international business, journalism or public service, and the Lott Leadership Institute offers the state's only undergraduate degree program in public policy studies and strengthens the university's tradition of producing national leaders. The American Academy of Forensic Scientists ranks the UM degree in forensic chemistry among the top five such degrees in the country, and the accountancy school's graduate and undergraduate programs are ranked in the nation's top 25. The National Science Foundation ranks UM 20th nationally for total R&D expenditures in physics, and the School of Pharmacy ranks fifth among America's 92 pharmacy schools for total extramural funding for research. Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine includes Ole Miss among the country's 100 best buys for offering a quality education without the Ivy League price tag. The university has produced 24 Rhodes Scholars. Since 1999, the university also has produced eight Goldwater scholars, five Truman scholars, four Fulbright scholars and a Marshall scholar. UM's 18 sports teams compete at the NCAA's highest level, and 15 of those teams have participated in post-season play since 1995. At the same time, 736 Ole Miss student-athletes were named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. |
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