Mississippi State University College Portrait
Mississippi State UniversityMississippi State, MS 39762
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- Students
Find out more about the characteristics of students who attend MSU.
- Admissions
See how many students applied, accepted, and enrolled at MSU. Learn more about students’ high school preparation and test scores.
- College Costs & Financial Aid
Learn about costs to attend MSU and how much financial aid is typically awarded.
- College Cost Estimator
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- Classes and Campus Life
Learn more about professors, where students live, and campus safety at MSU.
- Student Experiences
Discover ways to be actively involved in your education at MSU – inside and outside the classroom.
- Majors, Graduation and Next Steps
See which majors are most popular at MSU and what recent graduates plan to do after earning their bachelor's degree.
- Student Success & Progress
Discover how many students who start at MSU finish their bachelor's degree and how long it takes.
- Student Learning Outcomes
Figure out what learning gains to expect in critical thinking, writing, and other important subjects at MSU.
MSU Classes & Instructors
| Classroom Environment | |
|---|---|
| Students per Faculty | 20 to 1 |
| Undergraduate classes with fewer than 30 students | 64% |
| Undergraduate classes with fewer than 50 students | 86% |
| Total Full-Time Instructional Faculty | 801 |
| % of Full-Time Instructional Faculty Who Are Female | 35% |
| % of Full-Time Instructional Faculty Who Are Persons of Color | 14% |
| % of Full-Time Instructional Faculty Who Have the Highest Academic Degree Offered in Their Field of Study | 80% |
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Campus-based Housing
92% of new freshmen live in campus-based housing or residence halls.
26% of all undergraduates live on campus
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Campus Safety
The MSU Police Department is a full-service agency that is available 24 hours a day, throughout the year. The Department works towards building partnerships with the university community to provide a safer environment with such programs and services as: Bike Patrol, Resident Hall Adopt-a-Cop, Operation Identification, Community Police Officers, and Library Patrol. In addition to these services, MSU is taking extra precautions to ensure security on campus with a program called Bully Patrol. Available for more than four years, Bully Patrol is provided by MSU police officers, students, and retired individuals in the community working as patrollers. The service is available for all MSU students, faculty, and staff from 6:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., providing a personal escort to any location on campus to ensure safety and reduce crime on campus.
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Carnegie Classification of Institutional Characteristics
The Carnegie Classification's were created "to reference the great diversity of colleges and universities in the United States, and ... enable [people] to identify groups of roughly comparable institutions." For information on the Carnegie Classifications system, please visit their website: http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/
- Basic Type
- Research Universities (very high research activity)
- Size and Setting
- Large four-year, primarily nonresidential
- Enrollment Profile
- High undergraduate
- Undergraduate Profile
- Full-time four-year, more selective, higher transfer-in
- Undergraduate Instructional Program
- Professions plus arts & sciences, high graduate coexistence
- Graduate Instructional Program
- Comprehensive doctoral with medical/veterinary