Mississippi State University

Mississippi State University is a public land-grant university in Starkville, Mississippi. It was founded in 1878 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi and later took the Mississippi State name as it added professional schools. The land-grant mission in agriculture, engineering, and extension still defines its structure. The campus occupies more than 4,000 acres in a college town in northeastern Mississippi.

The university comprises colleges of agriculture and life sciences; architecture, art and design; arts and sciences; business; education; engineering (the Bagley College of Engineering); forest resources; and veterinary medicine. Graduate students work in agricultural experiment stations, engineering and computing laboratories, and the College of Veterinary Medicine's teaching hospital. Research strengths include agriculture, engineering, forestry, and veterinary science.

Enrollment is about 23,000 students, with several thousand in graduate and professional programs and a modest international share from dozens of countries. The faculty numbers in the thousands including the veterinary and extension staffs. Notable alumni include novelist John Grisham and US senator John C. Stennis.

Graduate study includes master's and doctoral degrees, the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, and professional master's programs. Supervision in the sciences and engineering is laboratory- and field-based, with coursework requirements set by each college. The calendar is the US semester system. Assistantships and land-grant research projects are the usual support for doctoral students. Starkville is a small city organized around the campus.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Mississippi State University lists 1 doctoral program, in computer science.