About The University of Mississippi

The University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, is a public research university circles in Oxford, Mississippi. Including the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, it is the state’s largest the academy by enrollment and promotes itself as the state’s flagship university.

The academic world was chartered by the Mississippi Legislature on February 24, 1844, and four years vanguard admitted its first enrollment of 80 students. The academic world is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity”. According to the National Science Foundation, Ole Miss spent $137 million upon research and progress in 2018, ranking it 142nd in the nation.

Across everything its campuses, the college circles comprises some 23,258 students. In complement to the main campus in Oxford and the medical educational in Jackson, the academic world also has campuses in Tupelo, Booneville, Grenada, and Southaven, as without difficulty as an accredited online high school. About 55 percent of its undergraduates and 60 percent overall come from Mississippi, and 23 percent are minorities; international students respectively represent 90 different nations. It is one of the 33 colleges and universities participating in the National Sea Grant Program and a participant in the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program.

Ole Miss was a middle of bustle during the American civil rights bustle when a race riot erupted in 1962 past the attempted entry of James Meredith, an African-American, to the segregated campus. Although the academe was integrated that year, the use of Confederate symbols and motifs has remained a controversial aspect of the school’s identity and culture. In reaction the college circles has taken events to rebrand its image, including effectively banning the display of Confederate flags in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in 1997, officially abandoning the Colonel Reb mascot in 2003, and removing “Dixie” from the Pride of the South marching band’s repertoire in 2016.

University is a census-designated place (CDP) and the attributed name for an area covering the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) campus, in Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. The CDP is amongst the city of Oxford. Its approved United States Postal Service designation is “University, Mississippi”, with a ZIP Code of 38677.

The population at the 2010 census was 4,202, while the 2014 enrollment for Ole Miss was 20,112 in 2014.

The University CDP is an enclave amid the city of Oxford, west of its downtown area. It has an area of 0.70 square miles (1.82 km2), all of it recorded as land.