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class="infobox-subheader"><div class="nickname">Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Sciences</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Mississippi_State_University_seal.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Mississippi_State_University_seal.svg/150px-Mississippi_State_University_seal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Mississippi_State_University_seal.svg/225px-Mississippi_State_University_seal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Mississippi_State_University_seal.svg/300px-Mississippi_State_University_seal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="120" data-file-height="120" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Former names</div></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi (1878–1932)<br /> Mississippi State College (1932–1958)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Motto</th><td class="infobox-data">"Learning, Service, Research"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Public_university" title="Public university">Public</a> <a href="/wiki/Land-grant_colleges" class="mw-redirect" title="Land-grant colleges">land-grant</a> <a href="/wiki/Research_university" title="Research university">research university</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">February 28, 1878<span class="noprint">; 146 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">February 28, 1878</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Parent institution</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Higher_education_accreditation" title="Higher education accreditation">Accreditation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Association_of_Colleges_and_Schools" title="Southern Association of Colleges and Schools">SACS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Academic affiliation</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style 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endowment">Endowment</a></th><td class="infobox-data">$698.2 million (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/University_president" class="mw-redirect" title="University president">President</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mark_E._Keenum" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark E. Keenum">Mark E. Keenum</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Academic staff</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,359<sup id="cite_ref-FacCount_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FacCount-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Administrative staff</div></th><td class="infobox-data">3,361</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Students</th><td class="infobox-data">22,649 (fall 2022)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div style="display:inline" class="locality"><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State,_Mississippi" title="Mississippi State, Mississippi">Mississippi State</a></div>, <div style="display:inline" class="state"><a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a></div>, <div style="display:inline" class="country-name">United States</div><br /><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Mississippi_State_University&params=33.454_N_88.789_W_region:US-MS_type:edu"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">33°27′14″N</span> <span class="longitude">88°47′20″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">33.454°N 88.789°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">33.454; -88.789</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Campus</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/College_Town" class="mw-redirect" title="College Town">Remote town</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, 4,200 acres (17 km<sup>2</sup>)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Other campuses</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biloxi,_Mississippi" title="Biloxi, Mississippi">Biloxi</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gautier,_Mississippi" title="Gautier, Mississippi">Gautier</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Meridian,_Mississippi" title="Meridian, Mississippi">Meridian</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Stennis_Space_Center" title="Stennis Space Center">Stennis Space Center</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Newspaper</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Reflector_(Mississippi_newspaper)" title="The Reflector (Mississippi newspaper)">The Reflector</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/School_colors" title="School colors">Colors</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Maroon and white<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend-color" style="background-color:#5D1725"> </span> <span class="legend-color" style="background-color:#FFFFFF"> </span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Athletic_nickname" title="Athletic nickname">Nickname</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State_Bulldogs" title="Mississippi State Bulldogs">Bulldogs</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Sporting affiliations</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_FBS" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Division I FBS">NCAA Division I FBS</a> – <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Conference" title="Southeastern Conference">SEC</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Mascot</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bully_the_Bulldog" class="mw-redirect" title="Bully the Bulldog">Bully the Bulldog</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.msstate.edu">msstate.edu</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Mississippi_State_University_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Mississippi_State_University_logo.svg/220px-Mississippi_State_University_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Mississippi_State_University_logo.svg/330px-Mississippi_State_University_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Mississippi_State_University_logo.svg/440px-Mississippi_State_University_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="232" data-file-height="41" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> commonly known as <b>Mississippi State University</b> (<b>MSU</b>), is a <a href="/wiki/Public_university" title="Public university">public</a> <a href="/wiki/Land-grant_university" title="Land-grant university">land-grant</a> <a href="/wiki/Research_university" title="Research university">research university</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State,_Mississippi" title="Mississippi State, Mississippi">Mississippi State, Mississippi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Foundation_for_the_Advancement_of_Teaching" title="Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching">classified</a> among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity" and has a total <a href="/wiki/Research" title="Research">research and development</a> budget of $239.4 million, the largest in Mississippi.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The university was chartered as <b>Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College</b> on February 28, 1878, and admitted its first students in 1880. Organized into 12 colleges and schools, the university offers over 180 <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">baccalaureate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Postgraduate_education" title="Postgraduate education">graduate</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Professional_degree" title="Professional degree">professional degree</a> programs,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is home to Mississippi's only accredited programs in <a href="/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture">architecture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Veterinary_medicine_in_the_United_States" title="Veterinary medicine in the United States">veterinary medicine</a>. Mississippi State participates in the <a href="/wiki/National_Sea_Grant_College_Program" title="National Sea Grant College Program">National Sea Grant College Program</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Space_Grant_College_and_Fellowship_Program" title="National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program">National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program</a>. The university's main campus in Starkville is supplemented by auxiliary campuses in <a href="/wiki/Meridian,_Mississippi" title="Meridian, Mississippi">Meridian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gautier,_Mississippi" title="Gautier, Mississippi">Gautier</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Biloxi,_Mississippi" title="Biloxi, Mississippi">Biloxi</a>. </p><p>Mississippi State's intercollegiate sports teams, the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State_Bulldogs" title="Mississippi State Bulldogs">Mississippi State Bulldogs</a>, compete in <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I" title="NCAA Division I">NCAA Division I</a> athletics as members of the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Conference" title="Southeastern Conference">Southeastern Conference</a>'s western division. Mississippi State was a founding member of the SEC in 1932. In their more-than 120-year history, the Bulldogs have won 21 individual national championships,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 30 regular season conference championships, and 1 national championship title.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The school is noted for a pervasive <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_baseball" title="Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball">baseball</a> fan culture,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with <a href="/wiki/Dudy_Noble_Field,_Polk%E2%80%93DeMent_Stadium" title="Dudy Noble Field, Polk–DeMent Stadium">Dudy Noble Field</a> holding 22 of the top 25 all-time <a href="/wiki/College_baseball#Top_25_on-campus_college_baseball_crowds_of_all-time" title="College baseball">NCAA attendance records</a> and the school's <a href="/wiki/Left_Field_Lounge" title="Left Field Lounge">Left Field Lounge</a> being described as an epicenter of <a href="/wiki/College_baseball" title="College baseball">college baseball</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:1008px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize" style="overflow:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Regimental_parade,_Mississippi_State_University_A_%26_M_College.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mississippi State in 1914"><img alt="1914" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Regimental_parade%2C_Mississippi_State_University_A_%26_M_College.jpg/1000px-Regimental_parade%2C_Mississippi_State_University_A_%26_M_College.jpg" decoding="async" width="1000" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Regimental_parade%2C_Mississippi_State_University_A_%26_M_College.jpg/1500px-Regimental_parade%2C_Mississippi_State_University_A_%26_M_College.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Regimental_parade%2C_Mississippi_State_University_A_%26_M_College.jpg/2000px-Regimental_parade%2C_Mississippi_State_University_A_%26_M_College.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3245" data-file-height="420" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Regimental_parade,_Mississippi_State_University_A_%26_M_College.jpg" title="File:Regimental parade, Mississippi State University A & M College.jpg"> </a></div>Mississippi State in 1914</div></div></div> <p>The university began as <b>The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi</b> (or <b>Mississippi A&M</b>), one of the national <a href="/wiki/Land-grant_university" title="Land-grant university">land-grant colleges</a> established after <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress of the United States">Congress</a> passed the <a href="/wiki/Morrill_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Morrill Act">Morrill Act</a> in 1862. It was created by the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Legislature" title="Mississippi Legislature">Mississippi Legislature</a> on February 28, 1878, to fulfill the mission of offering training in "agriculture, horticulture and the mechanical arts ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, including military tactics." The university received its first students in the fall of 1880 in the presidency of <a href="/wiki/General_officers_in_the_Confederate_States_Army" title="General officers in the Confederate States Army">General</a> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_D._Lee" title="Stephen D. Lee">Stephen D. Lee</a>. </p><p>In 1887 <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress of the United States">Congress</a> passed the <a href="/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1887" title="Hatch Act of 1887">Hatch Act</a>, which provided for the establishment of the Agricultural Experiment Station in 1888. The Cooperative Extension Service was established in 1914 by the <a href="/wiki/Smith-Lever_Act_of_1914" class="mw-redirect" title="Smith-Lever Act of 1914">Smith-Lever Act</a>. The university has since had its mission expanded and redefined by the Legislature. In 1932, the Legislature renamed the university as <b>Mississippi State College</b>. </p><p>In 1958 the Legislature renamed the university Mississippi State University in recognition of its academic development and addition of graduate programs. The Graduate School had been organized (1936), doctoral degree programs had begun (1951), the School of Forest Resources had been established (1954), and the College of Arts and Sciences had replaced the General Science School (1956). </p><p>The university was desegregated in July 1965, when <a href="/wiki/Richard_E._Holmes" title="Richard E. Holmes">Richard E. Holmes</a>, a graduate of <a href="/wiki/Henderson_High_School_(Mississippi)" title="Henderson High School (Mississippi)">Henderson High School</a> in Starkville, became the first African-American student to enroll. The <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964" title="Civil Rights Act of 1964">Civil Rights Act of 1964</a> was passed by Congress the year before, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was being debated, and the United States Supreme Court had ruled in <i><a href="/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education" title="Brown v. Board of Education">Brown v. Board of Education</a></i> (1954) that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.<sup id="cite_ref-Holmes_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Holmes-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The School of Architecture admitted its first students in 1973, the College of <a href="/wiki/Veterinary_Medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Veterinary Medicine">Veterinary Medicine</a> admitted its first class in 1977. The MSU Vet school (commonly referred to as the CVM) is the largest <a href="/wiki/Veterinary_school" class="mw-redirect" title="Veterinary school">veterinary school</a> under one roof in the nation. The School of <a href="/wiki/Accountancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Accountancy">Accountancy</a> was established in 1979. </p><p>The University Honors Program was founded in 1968 to provide more rigorous course curricula for academically talented students and support guest lecture series, forums, and distinguished external scholarships. The program has been vastly expanded and has a separate college. This was made possible by funding by Bobby Shackouls, an MSU <a href="/wiki/Alumnus" class="mw-redirect" title="Alumnus">alumnus</a> and retired CEO, who donated <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a>10 million to found the Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College in April 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MSU also started a joint Ph.D. program in engineering with <a href="/wiki/San_Jose_State_University" title="San Jose State University">San Jose State University</a> in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, allowing an increase in research for both universities, as well as enhancing the stature of both engineering colleges.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2009, Mississippi State announced the conclusion of the university's seven-year capital campaign, with more than $462 million received in private gifts and pledges.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 24, 2012, a 21-year-old student at the university named John Sanderson was shot twice in the torso and killed inside the Evans Hall Dormitory on campus by a small caliber handgun.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Three men, Mason Perry Jones, Trent DeUndra Crump, and Duntae Harvey, were captured in connection with the slaying.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mason Perry Jones later pled guilty to murder and was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campuses">Campuses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Campuses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mississippi State University is <a href="/wiki/Higher_education_accreditation_in_the_United_States" title="Higher education accreditation in the United States">accredited</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Commission_on_Colleges_of_the_Southern_Association_of_Colleges_and_Schools" class="mw-redirect" title="Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools">Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools</a> to award <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">baccalaureate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">master's</a>, <a href="/wiki/Specialist_degree" title="Specialist degree">specialist</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Doctorate" title="Doctorate">doctoral</a> <a href="/wiki/Academic_degree" title="Academic degree">degrees</a>. </p><p>The main campus is partially in Starkville and partially in the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State,_Mississippi" title="Mississippi State, Mississippi">Mississippi State</a> <a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">census-designated place</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Today, the university has the following colleges and schools: </p> <table> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <td> <ul><li>College of Agriculture and Life Sciences</li> <li>College of Architecture Art and Design</li> <li>College of Arts and Sciences</li> <li>College of Business</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Adkerson" title="Richard Adkerson">Richard C. Adkerson</a> School of Accountancy</li> <li>College of Education</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>James Worth Bagley College of Engineering</li> <li>Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering</li> <li>Shackouls Honors College</li> <li>College of Forest Resources</li> <li>College of Veterinary Medicine</li> <li>School of Human Sciences</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm/220px--MSU_Lee_Hall.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="45" data-mwtitle="MSU_Lee_Hall.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:MSU_Lee_Hall.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm/MSU_Lee_Hall.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>Lee Hall on the Mississippi State University</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_1" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/MSU_Drill_Field.webm/220px--MSU_Drill_Field.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="38" data-mwtitle="MSU_Drill_Field.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:MSU_Drill_Field.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/MSU_Drill_Field.webm/MSU_Drill_Field.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/MSU_Drill_Field.webm/MSU_Drill_Field.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/MSU_Drill_Field.webm/MSU_Drill_Field.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/MSU_Drill_Field.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/MSU_Drill_Field.webm/MSU_Drill_Field.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/MSU_Drill_Field.webm/MSU_Drill_Field.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/MSU_Drill_Field.webm/MSU_Drill_Field.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/MSU_Drill_Field.webm/MSU_Drill_Field.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>The Drill Field on the campus at Mississippi State University</figcaption></figure> <p>As of Fall 2021, Mississippi State's enrollment was 23,086.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The university has 160 buildings, and the grounds comprise about 4,200 acres (17 km<sup>2</sup>), including farms, pastures, and woodlands of the Experiment Station. The university also owns an additional 80,000 acres (320 km<sup>2</sup>) across the state. </p><p>Mississippi State University operates an off-campus, degree-granting center in <a href="/wiki/Meridian,_Mississippi" title="Meridian, Mississippi">Meridian</a> that offers undergraduate and graduate programs. In cooperation with the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, the College of Engineering offers the Master of Science degree to students in <a href="/wiki/Vicksburg,_Mississippi" title="Vicksburg, Mississippi">Vicksburg</a>. </p><p>Mississippi State's campus is centered on the main quadrangle, called the <i>Drill Field</i> (pictured) due to its heavy use by the Corps of Cadets prior to the end of World War II. The Drill Field is defined at its north and south ends by the mirror-image buildings, <i>Lee Hall</i> (the original University building, now the division of languages building, far left in picture below) and <i>Swalm Hall</i> (home to the Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, far right in picture below). <a href="/wiki/Old_Main_(Mississippi_State_University)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Main (Mississippi State University)">Old Main</a> was the original dormitory, west of Lee Hall; it burned in a tragic fire, and was replaced by the Colvard Student Union. The largest building fronting the Drill Field is Mitchell Memorial Library.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>From the Drill Field, the campus radiates in all directions. The College of Engineering can be found mostly to the east side of the Drill Field; to the north are the Arts and Sciences, including Computer Science, and the College of Architecture, Art, and Design (CAAD). Humanities are found to the south, while Agriculture dominates the west section. To the west and northwest are also found the athletic facilities, including <a href="/wiki/Davis_Wade_Stadium" title="Davis Wade Stadium">Scott Field</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Coliseum" title="Humphrey Coliseum">Humphrey Coliseum</a>, or <i>The Hump</i>. </p><p>Beyond the main campus (and the series of commuter parking lots ringing the main campus) are the North and South Farms. While still used for their original purpose of agricultural research, the Farms are also host to newer facilities, such as the astronomical observatory and Veterinary College (South Farm) and the <a href="/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Collaboratory" title="High Performance Computing Collaboratory">High Performance Computing Collaboratory</a> (North Farm). At the far west of campus, one finds first the fraternity and sorority houses, and beyond them <a href="/wiki/The_Cotton_District" title="The Cotton District">the Cotton District</a> and downtown Starkville, Mississippi. The university is also home to the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park, which host many of the university's research centers, such as the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) and the nationally recognized <a href="/wiki/Social_Science_Research_Center_(MSU)" class="mw-redirect" title="Social Science Research Center (MSU)">Social Science Research Center</a>. </p><p>The Williams Building, which houses the MSU Police Department and the Faculty Senate,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was designed by architect <a href="/wiki/Emmett_J._Hull" title="Emmett J. Hull">Emmett J. Hull</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:1008px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize" style="overflow:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DrillFieldPanorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Drill Field and surrounding buildings"><img alt="The Drill Field and surrounding buildings" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/DrillFieldPanorama.jpg/1000px-DrillFieldPanorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="1000" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/DrillFieldPanorama.jpg/1500px-DrillFieldPanorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/DrillFieldPanorama.jpg/2000px-DrillFieldPanorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3741" data-file-height="820" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:DrillFieldPanorama.jpg" title="File:DrillFieldPanorama.jpg"> </a></div>The Drill Field and surrounding buildings</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mitchell_Memorial_Library">Mitchell Memorial Library</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Mitchell Memorial Library"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ulysses_S._Grant_1870-1880.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ulysses_S._Grant_1870-1880.jpg/170px-Ulysses_S._Grant_1870-1880.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="228" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ulysses_S._Grant_1870-1880.jpg/255px-Ulysses_S._Grant_1870-1880.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ulysses_S._Grant_1870-1880.jpg/340px-Ulysses_S._Grant_1870-1880.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4087" data-file-height="5473" /></a><figcaption>Mississippi State University is home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Collection.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Mitchell Memorial Library is in the heart of the campus, on the eastern side of the Drill Field.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The library has a collection of 2,124,341 volumes and 70,331 journals.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mississippi State is one of the few universities to house presidential papers. In May 2012, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a> Association, Mississippi State University was selected as the permanent location for Ulysses S. Grant's <a href="/wiki/Presidential_library_system" title="Presidential library system">Presidential Library</a>. President Grant's artifacts are to remain permanently at the Mitchell Memorial Library on the MSU campus. These include Grant's letters and photographs during his presidency, from 1869 to 1877. The MSU library catalogued and cross-referenced 15,000 linear feet of material. Grant's letters have been edited and published in 32 volumes by the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the Southern Illinois University Press.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Smith_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The library is also home to the Congressional and Political Research Center, which is on the first floor. This center, established in November 1999, houses the collections of US Senator <a href="/wiki/John_C._Stennis" title="John C. Stennis">John C. Stennis</a> and Congressman <a href="/wiki/G._V._Montgomery" class="mw-redirect" title="G. V. Montgomery">G. V. Montgomery</a>, nicknamed "Sonny". Their careers spanned a total of 72 years of service as Congressional leaders. The center also provides research materials and information on individual US Senators and Representatives, the US Congress, and politics at all levels of government.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the library's premier collections is that of internationally known author <a href="/wiki/John_Grisham" title="John Grisham">John Grisham</a>, an MSU alumnus who donated his papers to the university in 1989. Grisham's collection, now consisting of over 42 cubic feet, has also attracted national attention to the library. Materials from the Grisham papers are on display in Mitchell Memorial Library's John Grisham Room (3rd floor), which opened in May 1998. The libraries also receive his published works, including foreign-language translations.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, the Charles H. Templeton Collection, which includes over 200 nineteenth- and twentieth-century music instruments, 22,000 pieces of sheet music, and 13,000 records, was transferred to the Libraries. According to author and musicologist <a href="/w/index.php?title=David_A._Jasen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David A. Jasen (page does not exist)">David A. Jasen</a>, the Templeton Collection contains the most complete collection of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Victor_Talking_Machines&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Victor Talking Machines (page does not exist)">Victor Talking Machines</a> from their debut in 1897 to 1930. This collection was valued at over $495,000 in 1989. Items from the collection are on display at the Templeton Music Museum on the 4th floor of Mitchell Memorial Library. In 2001, a digitization project was established to digitize and provide access to the entire sheet music collection. The project has digitized, archived, and cataloged over 6,000 pieces of music.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The library hosts the Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival, an annual event including lectures and live performance of historic and contemporary ragtime. The festival debuted in March 2007, the first of its kind in Mississippi. The multi-day event features seminars, tours of the Templeton Music Museum, and concerts by ragtime and jazz musicians.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Junction">The Junction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Junction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_2" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/MSU_The_Junction.webm/220px--MSU_The_Junction.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="35" data-mwtitle="MSU_The_Junction.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:MSU_The_Junction.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/MSU_The_Junction.webm/MSU_The_Junction.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/MSU_The_Junction.webm/MSU_The_Junction.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/MSU_The_Junction.webm/MSU_The_Junction.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/MSU_The_Junction.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/MSU_The_Junction.webm/MSU_The_Junction.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/MSU_The_Junction.webm/MSU_The_Junction.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/MSU_The_Junction.webm/MSU_The_Junction.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/MSU_The_Junction.webm/MSU_The_Junction.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>The Junction on the campus of Mississippi State University</figcaption></figure> <p>Formerly the poorly-conceived convergence of five often-congested roadways and, earlier, a rail line, this student-inspired concept got its name from the term "Malfunction Junction", the informal name of the crossroads prior to the vacation and rerouting of some of the roadways. This resulted in improved traffic flow and ample new green space for leisure activities and events, including football tailgating. </p><p>Anchored by Davis Wade Stadium, Barnes & Noble Bookstore and the University Welcome Center, the Junction is the focal point of a pedestrian-friendly central campus and a significant gathering place for students, alumni and visitors. It is linked by paved walkways and green space to the university's other manicured "lawn", the historic Drill Field. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Student_life">Student life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Student life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"> <caption style="font-size:90%">Student body composition as of May 2, 2022 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Race and ethnicity<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th colspan="2" data-sort-type="number">Total </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_whites" title="Non-Hispanic whites">White</a> </td> <td align="right">73% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">73</span><div style="width:146px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:gray"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">Black</a> </td> <td align="right">17% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">17</span><div style="width:34px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:mediumblue"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic</a> </td> <td align="right">3% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">3</span><div style="width:6px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:green"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Other<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">3% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">3</span><div style="width:6px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:brown"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_Americans" title="Asian Americans">Asian</a> </td> <td align="right">2% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">2</span><div style="width:4px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:purple"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Foreign_national" title="Foreign national">Foreign national</a> </td> <td align="right">1% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">1</span><div style="width:2px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:orange"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> </td> <td align="right">1% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">1</span><div style="width:2px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:gold"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="4" data-sort-type="number"><a href="/wiki/Economic_diversity" title="Economic diversity">Economic diversity</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/American_lower_class" title="American lower class">Low-income</a><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">31% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">31</span><div style="width:62px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:red"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States" title="Affluence in the United States">Affluent</a><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">69% </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">69</span><div style="width:138px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:black"> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>MSU has over 300 student organizations. Prominent groups include the Student Association, Famous Maroon Band, MSU Road Runners, Alumni Delegates, Maroon VIP, <a href="/wiki/Lambda_Sigma" title="Lambda Sigma">Lambda Sigma</a>, Orientation Leaders, 18 fraternities and 11 sororities, the Residence Hall Association, the Black Student Alliance, the Mississippi State University College Democrats and Republicans, Music Maker Productions, the Baptist Student Union, the Engineering Student Council, <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Air_Society" title="Arnold Air Society">Arnold Air Society</a>, the Stennis-Montgomery Association and ChallengeX. The University Recreation department oversees the intramural sports program.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are many international student organizations active on campus, including the Nepalese Student Association and ISA,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> which organize various programs to educate students about their culture and traditions. The national literary magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Jabberwock_Review" title="Jabberwock Review">Jabberwock Review</a></i> is also based at MSU. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Student_media">Student media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Student media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mississippi State's local radio station is <a href="/wiki/WMSV" title="WMSV">WMSV</a>. </p><p>Prior to WMSV, Mississippi State had a student-run radio station, WMSB, which went off the air permanently at the end of the spring semester of 1986. WMSB was a low-power FM station with studios on the top floor of Lee Hall. WMSB was begun in the fall semester of 1971 in a freshman dorm room on the third floor of Critz Hall, utilizing an FM stereo transmitter that was designed and built as a high school science fair project by one of the station's founders. The station's original call letters were RHOM. Later, funding was solicited from the Student Association. Funding was approved, the low-power RCA FM transmitter was ordered and the call letters WMSB were issued by the FCC. The station was moved to studios on the top floor of Lee Hall that were formerly occupied by a student-run AM station.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The student newspaper is <i><a href="/wiki/The_Reflector_(Mississippi_newspaper)" title="The Reflector (Mississippi newspaper)">The Reflector</a></i>, published twice per week on Tuesday and Friday. The publication was named the #1 college newspaper in the South in 2007 by the Southeast Journalism Conference.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In recent years, <i>The Reflector</i> has remained in the top 10 college newspapers in the South.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music_scene">Music scene</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Music scene"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mississippi State is home to WMSV, the campus radio station. </p><p>During the spring semester the Old Main Music Festival takes place, it is also free to the public, and is held on the Mississippi State Campus.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city of Starkville and the Mississippi State campus have been a tour stop for many artists,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including a visit in 1965 by Johnny Cash. After Cash's performance he was arrested, which led him to write the song "Starkville City Jail".<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lecture_series">Lecture series</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Lecture series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Every semester Mississippi State has several distinguished speakers; these have included best selling authors <a href="/wiki/Greg_Mortenson" title="Greg Mortenson">Greg Mortenson</a><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Mississippi State alumnus <a href="/wiki/John_Grisham" title="John Grisham">John Grisham</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> former <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">United States Secretary of State</a> <a href="/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice">Condoleezza Rice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a>-nominated <a href="/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee">Spike Lee</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> television science show hosts <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Lieberman" title="Jeff Lieberman">Jeff Lieberman</a><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Dr. <a href="/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson" title="Neil deGrasse Tyson">Neil deGrasse Tyson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nobel laureates including Sir <a href="/wiki/Harry_Kroto" title="Harry Kroto">Harry Kroto</a> (1996 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry" title="Nobel Prize in Chemistry">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/J._M._G._Le_Cl%C3%A9zio" title="J. M. G. Le Clézio">J. M. G. Le Clézio</a> (2008 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz" title="Joseph Stiglitz">Joseph Stiglitz</a> (2001 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences" title="Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences">Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have also appeared. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Greek_life">Greek life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Greek life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mississippi State's Greek system comprises 20 fraternities (IFC and NPHC) and 14 sororities (Panhellenic and NPHC). In 2019, 24% of undergraduate men and 18% of undergraduate women were active in MSU's Greek system.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Athletics">Athletics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Athletics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State_Bulldogs" title="Mississippi State Bulldogs">Mississippi State Bulldogs</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_logo.svg/200px-Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_logo.svg/300px-Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_logo.svg/400px-Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="248" data-file-height="151" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Davis_Wade.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Davis_Wade.jpg/220px-Davis_Wade.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Davis_Wade.jpg/330px-Davis_Wade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Davis_Wade.jpg/440px-Davis_Wade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Davis_Wade_Stadium" title="Davis Wade Stadium">Davis Wade Stadium</a> at the previous record-setting capacity of 58,103 against <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football" title="Alabama Crimson Tide football">Alabama</a>; since renovation and expansion, the new attendance record is 62,945, set in 2014 against <a href="/wiki/Auburn_Tigers_football" title="Auburn Tigers football">Auburn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Mississippi State University's sixteen athletic teams are known as the Bulldogs. Previous nicknames included the Aggies and the Maroons. They compete in <a href="/wiki/Division_I_(NCAA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Division I (NCAA)">Division I</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">NCAA</a>, in the 16-member <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Conference" title="Southeastern Conference">Southeastern Conference</a> (SEC). </p><p>Bulldogs athletic teams have won a total of 28 conference championships (14 SEC). Mississippi State's most successful sport is <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_baseball" title="Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball">baseball</a>. The Diamond Dogs have won 17 conference championships (11 SEC) and 6 SEC tournament championships, while making 28 NCAA Tournament appearances and 12 College World Series appearances. The Diamond Dogs play home games at <a href="/wiki/Dudy_Noble_Field,_Polk-DeMent_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Dudy Noble Field, Polk-DeMent Stadium">Dudy Noble Field, Polk-DeMent Stadium</a>, which holds the NCAA record for the largest single-game on-campus baseball attendance at 16,423 fans (April 15, 2023, vs. <a href="/wiki/Ole_Miss_Rebels_baseball" title="Ole Miss Rebels baseball">Ole Miss</a>). After finishing runner-up in 2013, the Diamond Dogs won their first <a href="/wiki/College_World_Series" title="College World Series">Men's College World Series</a> in 2021, the university's first national championship in any sport.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rankings">Rankings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mississippi_State_University&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Rankings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><a href="/wiki/College_and_university_rankings_in_the_United_States" title="College and university rankings in the United States">Academic rankings</a></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lavender;">National</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/America%27s_Top_Colleges" title="America's Top Colleges"><i>Forbes</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_Forbes_NU_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_Forbes_NU-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">242</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report_Best_Colleges_Ranking" title="U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking"><i>U.S. News & World Report</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_USNWR_NU_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_USNWR_NU-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">214 (tie)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Washington_Monthly_college_rankings" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Monthly college rankings"><i>Washington Monthly</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_Wamo_NU_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_Wamo_NU-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">254</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal"><i>WSJ</i></a>/College Pulse<sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_WSJ_NU_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_WSJ_NU-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">401-500</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lavender;">Global</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/QS_World_University_Rankings" title="QS World University Rankings"><i>QS</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_QS_W_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_QS_W-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">1001–1200</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Times_Higher_Education_World_University_Rankings" title="Times Higher Education World University Rankings"><i>THE</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_THES_W_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_THES_W-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">601–800</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report_Best_Global_Universities_Ranking" title="U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking"><i>U.S. News & World Report</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-Rankings_USNWR_W_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rankings_USNWR_W-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: right;">832 (tie)</td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>In 2014, Mississippi State was ranked the 36th top college in the United States by the Social Mobility Index college rankings.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>U.S. News & World Report National Rankings</b><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Graduate school</th> <th>2024 national rank </th></tr> <tr> <td>Veterinary Medicine</td> <td>24 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Engineering</td> <td>80 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading 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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Mississippi_State_University_people" title="List of Mississippi State University people">List of Mississippi State University people</a></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerycaption">Notable people</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coachvan.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Van Chancellor Basketball coach, 4-time WNBA champion"><img alt="Van Chancellor Basketball coach, 4-time WNBA champion" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Coachvan.jpg/70px-Coachvan.jpg" decoding="async" width="70" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Coachvan.jpg/105px-Coachvan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Coachvan.jpg/140px-Coachvan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="336" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Van_Chancellor" title="Van Chancellor">Van Chancellor</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a> coach, 4-time <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association">WNBA</a> champion</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Willclark97.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Will Clark Baseball player, 6-time MLB All-Star"><img alt="Will Clark Baseball player, 6-time MLB All-Star" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Willclark97.jpg/86px-Willclark97.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/John_Cohen_%28110228-F-AN607-001%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/180px-John_Cohen_%28110228-F-AN607-001%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/John_Cohen_%28110228-F-AN607-001%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/240px-John_Cohen_%28110228-F-AN607-001%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2217" data-file-height="1898" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/John_Cohen_(baseball)" title="John Cohen (baseball)">John Cohen</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Athletic_director" title="Athletic director">Athletic director</a>, <a href="/wiki/Auburn_Tigers" title="Auburn Tigers">Auburn Tigers</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Leonard_B._Cresswell.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Leonard B. Cresswell Major general in the Marines, Navy Cross recipient"><img alt="Leonard B. Cresswell Major general in the Marines, Navy Cross recipient" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Leonard_B._Cresswell.jpg/97px-Leonard_B._Cresswell.jpg" decoding="async" width="97" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Leonard_B._Cresswell.jpg/146px-Leonard_B._Cresswell.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Leonard_B._Cresswell.jpg/194px-Leonard_B._Cresswell.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="5689" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Leonard_B._Cresswell" title="Leonard B. Cresswell">Leonard B. 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