The University of Mississippi

at University Avenue, Oxford , 39762 United States

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<p><b>The University of Mississippi</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_university_" class="wikipedia">public</a>, <a href="/pages/w/114694968545596">coeducational</a> <a href="/pages/w/106181036078917">research</a> <a href="/pages/w/112168902132660">university</a> in <a href="/pages/w/109593205727249">Oxford, Mississippi</a>, <a href="/pages/w/112463092102121">United States</a>. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main <a href="/pages/w/106113879420726">campus</a> in Oxford, four branch campuses located in <a href="/pages/w/111531285529947">Booneville</a>, <a href="/pages/w/112431062106458">Grenada</a>, <a href="/pages/w/103105283062515">Tupelo</a>, and <a href="/pages/w/104034969634202">Southaven</a>, as well as the <a href="/pages/w/108422909182864">University of Mississippi Medical Center</a> in <a href="/pages/w/103103679730619">Jackson</a>. It also operates the <a href="/pages/w/1433988280186804">University of Mississippi Field Station</a> in <a href="/pages/w/112814748732586">Abbeville</a>. It is both a <a href="/pages/w/111262262259383">sea-grant</a> and <a href="/pages/w/103170593071900">space-grant</a> institute. Sixty-one percent of undergraduates are from Mississippi and 25 percent of all students are minorities. International students come from 93 nations. Ole Miss is Mississippi's largest university with a total enrollment of 23,096 in fall 2014.</p><h2>History</h2><h3>Founding, expansion, and tradition</h3><p>The <a href="/pages/w/135814616449029">Mississippi Legislature</a> chartered the University of Mississippi on February 24, 1844. The university opened its doors to its first class of 80 students four years later in 1848. For 23 years, the university was Mississippi's only public institution of higher learning, and for 110 years it was the state's only comprehensive university. Until 1961, when <a href="/pages/w/108443149176224">James Meredith</a> was admitted after a civil rights challenge, the publicly funded college admitted only white students, excluding any of known African descent.</p>

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The University of Mississippi is Oxford based place and this enity listed in Doctor category. Located at University Avenue MS 39762. Contact phone number of The University of Mississippi: (662) 915-7226