University of Mississippi

When it chartered The University of Mississippi on February 24, 1844, the Mississippi Legislature laid the foundation for public higher education in the state. The university opened its doors to 80 students four years later, and for 23 years it was Mississippi’s only public institution of higher learning. For 110 years, it was the state’s only comprehensive university.

The University of Mississippi is alive with a history of achievement that chronicles the development of the state and its people. Known affectionately as Ole Miss, Mississippi’s flagship university established the fourth state-supported law school in the nation (1854) and was one of the first in the nation to offer engineering education (1854). It was one of the first in the South to admit women (1882) and the first to hire a female faculty member (1885).

Ole Miss also established the first College of Liberal Arts, School of Law, School of Engineering, School of Education, accredited School of Business Administration, Graduate School, School of Nursing, and accredited bachelor’s and master’s accountancy programs in the state. It has the only School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, School of Dentistry and School of Health Related Professions in Mississippi.

UM’s research enterprise—including programs in acoustics, atmospheric physics, health care, remote sensing, Southern studies, space law and pharmaceutical sciences—is renowned internationally. The university holds more than 40 patents for inventions including a fire ant trap, an algal herbicide, novel drug-delivery systems, a thermoacoustic refrigeration device, immune system stimulators and possible treatments for cancer, malaria, pain and infections. This work takes place across the university, which is home to more than 20 major research centers. In addition, the university is a center for Faulkner studies, offering one of the finest collections of the Nobel Prize-winner’s work and maintaining his Rowan Oak home as a literary shrine. At The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, surgeons performed the world’s first lung (1963) and heart (1964) transplants in man.

Courses Offered
Undergraduate Programs

• Bachelor of Accountancy
• Bachelor of Applied Sciences

Graduate Programs

• Master of Accountancy and Master of Taxation
• Master of Business Administration

School & Colleges

• School of Accountancy
• School of Applied Sciences
• School of Business Administration
• School of Education
• School of Engineering
• College of Liberal Arts
• Graduate School
• School of Law
• School of Pharmacy
• School of Journalism and New Media
• Honors College
• Residential College
• School of Dentistry
• School of Health Related Professions
• School of Nursing
• School of Medicine
• School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences

Departments

• Department of Art
• Department of Music
• Department of Theatre Arts
• Paris-Yates Chapel
• Professional Development

Contact Details
University of Mississippi
P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677
Official Website: http://www.olemiss.edu/