Mississippi State University is a comprehensive, doctoral-degree-granting university offering a wide range of opportunities and challenges for learning and growth to a diverse and capable student body; vigorous and expanding contributions in research, discovery, and application to the world of knowledge; and a variety of expert services to the State and its people in every region. Mississippi State University is a public, land-grant university whose mission is to offer access and opportunity to students from all sectors of the state's diverse population, as well as from other states and countries, and to offer excellent programs of teaching, research, and service.
Being a land-grant institution, Mississippi State University is devoted to the three broad purposes – learning, research, and service. Learning, on-campus and off-campus, is vital to enhance the intellectual, cultural, social, and professional development of the students. Research is necessary both to extend the present limits of knowledge and to bring deeper understanding and usefulness to existing knowledge. And finally service – to apply knowledge and the fruits of research to the lives of people. Fulfilling these purposes is the main work of the large number of educational units that make up the total university, including, among others, the academic departments, schools, and colleges.
Increasing its historic strengths in agriculture, natural resources, engineering, mathematics, and natural and physical sciences, Mississippi State provides their students with comprehensive varieties of undergraduate and graduate programs. These include architecture, the fine arts, business, education, the humanities, the social and behavioral sciences, and veterinary medicine.
Mississippi State is dedicated to its tradition of spreading among its students and alumni ideals of diversity, citizenship, leadership, and service. For over a century, the State has made profit out of the University and its graduates, most of whom have remained in Mississippi and contributed to the State's economic, social, and educational development.
Financial AidMississippi State University is dedicated to offering student financial assistance to eligible students to help pay the costs related to attending college. Different types of student financial aid are available through our Financial Aid Department.