University of Mississippi

The University of Mississippi is the public flagship university of Mississippi, in Oxford. It opened in 1848 and is still commonly called Ole Miss. The main campus is a traditional college town arranged around the Circle. The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson houses medicine and other health graduate programs as a separate academic health campus.

Oxford schools include Liberal Arts, Accountancy, Applied Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Journalism and New Media, Law, Pharmacy, and the Graduate School. Graduate strengths include law, pharmacy, accountancy, journalism, and Southern studies through the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Special collections hold blues recordings and William Faulkner materials that support humanities research.

The Oxford campus enrolls about 24,000 students; several thousand more study at the medical center in Jackson. Graduate and professional students are a minority in Oxford and the majority in Jackson. International students are a modest share. Faculty number more than 1,000. Alumni include novelist John Grisham, who earned a law degree here, U.S. senator Trent Lott, and James Meredith, who desegregated the university as a student in 1962.

Graduate study includes MA, MS, and PhD programs, the JD and PharmD in Oxford, and medical degrees in Jackson. Oxford graduate work mixes coursework master's degrees with supervised doctorates on a semester calendar. Assistantships are the usual support for research students. Oxford is a city of about 25,000 whose downtown Square is the center of daily student life, about 80 miles from Memphis.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Mississippi lists 3 graduate programs across 3 subjects, all of them doctoral programs, with the widest choice in civil engineering, languages & linguistics and pharmacy.