Top Colleges in Mississippi

Alcorn State University

• Alcorn State University, founded in 1871, is located in southern Mississippi on a 1,700-acre campus seven miles west of Lorman. Alcorn State has other campuses at Vicksburg and Natchez. This land grant college offers a variety of courses of study, including nursing, medicine, politics, law, education, human services, business, the arts and agriculture. Alcorn State, a historically black college, has 3,300 students and hosts 40 organizations and clubs. Alcorn offers a student-to-faculty ratio of 16-to-1. U.S. News & World Report ranks Alcorn as one of the best colleges in Mississippi, in 2010.

  Alcorn State University
  1000 ASU Drive #359
  Alcorn State, MS 39096
  601-877-6147
  alcorn.edu

Jackson State University

• Jackson State University, founded in 1877, is a historically back Carnegie doctoral/research university. Jackson has six colleges: Science, Engineering and Technology; Public Service; Lifelong Learning; Liberal Arts; Education and Human Development; and Business. The 125-acre campus is located five minutes from downtown Jackson. About 6,500 undergraduate students attend Jackson, with more than 85 percent of them attending full-time. Majors offered at this college include natural resources and conservation, architecture, communication and journalism, Computer and Information, education, engineering, engineering technologies/technicians, foreign languages, literature and linguistics, English language and literature, biological and biomedical sciences, mathematics and statistics, multidisciplinary studies, physical sciences, psychology, security and protective services, public administration and social service professions, social sciences, visual performing arts, health professions, business management and marketing, and history. The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance ranked Ole Miss in the Top 200 institutions in research expenditures, in 2006.

  Jackson State University
  1400 J.R. Lynch St.
  Jackson, MS 39217
  601-979-2100
  jsums.edu

Mississippi State University

• Mississippi State University, founded in 1878, is both a land grant and sea grant college. Mississippi State, a Carnegie research institution, is the largest university in the state with 17,000 students, 20 percent of which are graduate students. Mississippi State offers a student-to-faculty ratio of just over 15-to-1. There are 78 bachelor's degree programs along with 59 master's programs and 35 doctoral programs. The university has nine colleges,: Veterinary Medicine, Forest Resources, Engineering, Education, Business and Industry, Art and Design, Architecture, Arts and Sciences, and Agriculture and Life Sciences. The university has students from all 82 Mississippi counties, all 50 states and 75 countries. The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance ranked Mississippi State University 86th in the country, in 2006, for the Top American Research Universities.

  Mississippi State University
  PO Box 6334
  Mississippi State, MS 39762
  662-325-2224
  msstate.edu

University of Mississippi

• The University of Mississippi, founded in 1844, has an enrollment of 17,000 at its four campuses and offers 100 academic programs. The university's main campus is located in the small city of Oxford. The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance ranked Ole Miss in the Top 200 institutions in research expenditures in 2006. In addition, according to the university, Reader's Digest ranked the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College as one of the three best honors colleges in the nation.

  University of Mississippi
  PO Box 1848
  University, MS 38677-1848
  662-915-7226
  olemiss.edu