University of Southern Mississippi

The University of Southern Mississippi, accepted artlessly as Southern Miss, is a accessible analysis university amid in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is anchored 70 afar (110 km) arctic of Gulfport, Mississippi and 105 afar (169 km) northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Southern Miss is accepted by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to accolade baccalaureate, master's, specialist, and doctoral degrees. The university is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a "Research University" with "High Analysis Activity" (designation "RU/H").

Founded on March 30, 1910, the university is a bifold campus institution, with the capital campus amid in Hattiesburg and the Gulf Park campus amid in Long Beach, with 5 added teaching and analysis sites.

The university has a decidedly all-encompassing study-abroad affairs through its Centermost for International Education, and is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the nation for the amount of acceptance belief away anniversary year. It is abnormally acclaimed for its British Studies program, which consistently sends added than 200 acceptance anniversary summer to reside and abstraction in the affection of London. The university is aswell home to a above polymer science analysis center, and one of the arch accomplished arts programs in the southeastern United States.
Originally alleged the Mississippi Southerners, the Southern Miss able-bodied teams became the Golden Eagles in 1972. The school's colors, atramentous and gold, were called by a apprentice physique vote anon afterwards the academy was founded. While mascots, names, customs, and the campus accept changed, the atramentous and gold colors accept remained constant.The university's primary mission is "to breed bookish development and adroitness through the generation, dissemination, application, and canning of knowledge." Southern Miss is accepted by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and its programs are absolutely accepted by 30 accompaniment and civic agencies.

Southern Miss offers about 189 programs arch to baccalaureate, master's, specialist, and doctorate degrees. Southern Miss has commonly fatigued abounding of its acceptance from Mississippi schools and association colleges, acclamation from every canton in Mississippi, admitting today the majority of undergraduates appear from accessible schools beyond the southern United States and about the globe. The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra has added than 90 associates (including undergraduate and alum students) from the United States and 14 added countries.
The University of Southern Mississippi offers added than 250 clubs and organizations, as able-bodied as civil contest and appropriate events. Apprentice organizations at Southern Miss cover the Apprentice Government Association, The Legacy, The Apprentice Printz (the annual student-produced newspaper), The Southerner (the yearbook), Southern Style (the university's apprentice acclimatization team), civic fraternities and sororities, account societies, and assorted religious organizations. Southern Miss has added than 300 cultural contest every year. In addition, the academy participates in the NCAA's Division I-A, and Conference USA featuring year-round contest in 16 sports.

The institution's strengths cover its ample analysis endowment, its accent on accreditation at the authoritative and academy levels, its admired music and art programs, and its able-bodied prowess. Several amount programs at the university rank a part of the best of their affectionate in the nation. The New York Times Book Review ante the university's Centermost for Writers as one of the Top 10 in the country, and the Polymer Science and Engineering administration is consistently ranked a part of the nation's top 10 by U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News & World Report aswell included the university on a account for "Most Popular Universities". The Academy of Communications is ranked a part of the top ten programs in the nation, according to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and Southern Miss is one of alone one percent of business schools in the nation accepted in both business and accounting by the AACSB International Association for Administration Education.

Dr. Rodney D. Bennett became the tenth admiral of the university in April 2013.The University of Southern Mississippi was founded on March 30, 1910 as Mississippi Normal College, a teacher-training school. The college's aboriginal president, Joseph Anderson Cook, presided over the aperture affair of apprenticeship on September 18, 1912 and oversaw the architecture of Academy Hall (the bookish building); Forrest Canton Hall (men's and affiliated students' dormitory); Hattiesburg Hall (women's dormitory); the Industrial Cottage (training class for home management); and the president's home (now the Ogletree Alumni House). In its aboriginal session, Mississippi Normal Academy had a absolute acceptance of 876 students.

As the academy developed its class and departments, its name afflicted to reflect its progress: in 1924, to Mississippi Accompaniment Teachers College, and in 1940, to Mississippi Southern College.

The college's fifth president, Accompaniment Archivist Dr. William David McCain, was installed in 1955 and formed to aggrandize Mississippi Southern College. He oversaw the architecture of 17 new structures on campus and assertive Gov. Ross Barnett to advancement the academy to university cachet in acceptance of its alum programs. On February 27, 1962, Barnett active the bill into law which clearly renamed the academy as the University of Southern Mississippi.