Mississippi State University is a land-grant university located in north east-central Mississippi, United States, adjacent to the town of Starkville and is situated 125 miles (200 km) northeast of Jackson and 23 miles (37 km) west of Columbus. With an enrollment of 18,601, it is the largest university in the State of Mississippi. Mississippi State, Mississippi, is the official designation for the area that encompasses the university. In 2009, Mis...
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Mississippi State University is a land-grant university located in north east-central Mississippi, United States, adjacent to the town of Starkville and is situated 125 miles (200 km) northeast of Jackson and 23 miles (37 km) west of Columbus. With an enrollment of 18,601, it is the largest university in the State of Mississippi. Mississippi State, Mississippi, is the official designation for the area that encompasses the university. In 2009, Mississippi State University was ranked #18 nationally in Forbes magazine's "America's Best College Buys".
The University began as The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi (or Mississippi A&M;), one of the national land-grant colleges established after Congress passed the Morrill Act in 1862. It was created by the Mississippi Legislature on February 28, 1878, to fulfill the mission of offering training in "agriculture, horticulture and the mechanical arts . . . without excluding other scientific and classical studies,...
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