About
The University of Mississippi is world-class American open co-educational research university founded in 1848, which is producing leaders in public services, academic and innovative research. This is the state's biggest university with a main medical school, a nationally documented law school and 15 educational divisions which is located in Oxford Mississippi and it has more than 23,500 undergraduates.
It has been graded as one of America's greatest college bargains by Forbes and one of the finest places to work by the Record of Higher Education. The university's Honors College has been titled one of America's best. This university is consisting with a museum.
History
The University of Mississippi was established on February 24, 1844 as a bond of Mississippi Legislation which opened its doors to its first class of 80 students in 1848. The Fourth state reinforced public law college in the United States was recognized in 1854 with the engineering education.
It was the only public institution of advanced learning and the comprehensive university at the first 1990s. Due to the Civil Conflict in 1861, classes were interrupted and students have to entitled to the army the university has to be closed and its reopened only to the university Greys. Years passes and then the university turned into co-educational in.
At that time this university was the first such institute in the Southeast to employ a female faculty member. Not only that they have published the first student yearbook in 1897 and also they have began the medical education in 1903 in University of Mississippi School of Medical which is now consist with five other health science colleges of nursing, dentistry, health-related occupations, graduate educations and pharmacy.
University
The University of Mississippi is also identified as "Ole Miss" which has the hidden meaning as the school's immaterial soul. This university is one of the best places to exertion by the Chronicle of Higher Education. This contains around 2,200 faculty fellows, 10,600 staff members, and 24,000 undergraduates from 90 countries.
The University of Mississippi's vision is to lead and excel by engaging minds, transforming lives, and serving others from the pathway of mission which leads to generate, assess, share, and apply information in a free, open, and comprehensive environment of intellectual investigation. Undergraduate Education & Student Success, Graduate & Professional Education, Research, Scholarship, Creativity, & Innovation, The Collegiate Experience, Faculty, Staff and Transformation through Service are the priorities of excellence in Ole Miss. There are more than 4.43 million volumes of books and journals main J.D.
Williams library and Science library in Mississippi University. And also they provide the internet access in 24/7 to access electronic databases, electronic journals and electronic books. The students can also use the internet access to register for classes, to apply for admission, pay bills, check grades and submit the class assignment online.
Academics
The degree-granting divisions situated at the main site in Oxford: 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 & General Studies Program.
The most common majors at University of Mississippi comprise: Elementary Education and Teaching; Marketing/Marketing Management, General; Accountancy, Finance, General; Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration, Other; Biology, Psychology and Criminal Justice; and Business Administration and Management.
Institutes, Programs & Courses
The students have the facility to get the real world community building experience and they have been given insights on global perspectives to become leaders by the academic institutes of University of Mississippi.
Center for Aptitude and Safety Studies, Chinese Language Flagship Package, Croft Institute for International Studies and SECU: SEC Academic Initiative are the special programs conducted by the university. The majors of the university which is mentioned above are consisting with several courses internally and virtually. The semester based online coursed are offered through Ole Miss Online (OMO) which has a specific start date and end date to the course and assignments due at specific time.
The students will entitled to a virtual classroom with interactive sessions with class mates and the instructor and students have to complete the course work in regular basis and take the exams using the wired erudition platform blackboard.
Other Information
The Oxford campus is acclaimed as nation's most lovely and one of the 10 safest.
It has a long history of producing leaders they are presents valuable modes for that. The students can register with the bachelor's and doctoral programs in school of Accountancy and the top 25 online MBA programs in school of business administration. Also they are facilitated to do new researches using plants and sea life to produce new drugs in the School of Pharmacy which is the National Center for Natural Products Research.
