About Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) is a public community educational with its main campus in Perkinston, Mississippi. It was founded as Harrison County Agricultural High School in 1912. MGCCC has three campuses and six centers: The main campus in Perkinston; the Jackson County Campus is in Gautier; the Harrison County Campus is in Gulfport; with the George County Center in Lucedale; the West Harrison County Center in Long Beach; the Advanced Manufacturing & Technology Center in Gulfport; the Keesler Center at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi; the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport; and the Bryant Center at Tradition in Harrison County.

MGCCC after that offers a Community Campus that provides workforce education programs, onsite and online, to south Mississippi residents and employers.

The college’s lithe teams are known as the Bulldogs. They compete in the Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges in football, basketball, baseball, soccer, softball, golf and tennis. MGCCC won the National Junior College Athletic Association Football Championship in 1971 and 1984, was co-national champion in 2007, and won outright another time in 2019. The football team in addition to shared the 1948 Williamson Football Rating Bureau national championship past Compton Junior College. The men’s golf team won the NJCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championship in 2018 and Colin Troxler won an individual national championship in 2017. The women’s basketball team won the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Junior College national championship in 1973.

Perkinston is an unincorporated community in central Stone County, Mississippi, United States. It is situated along U.S. Highway 49, approximately five miles south of Wiggins. The community is portion of the Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area.