University of Mississippi

University of Mississippi officially founded in 1848 is a public research university. The university is also known as Ole Miss and is one of the featured educational system in America. The university is located in Oxford, Mississippi, United States. In addition to the university's main campus is located in Oxford, the university also has branch campuses located in Booneville, Grenada, Tupelo, Southaven, and Jackson.

With 2,563 full-time employees of Oxford and satellite campuses, including 871 full-time faculty, Ole Miss is the largest company in Lafayette County. More than 82 percent of full-time faculty hold the highest degree in their field. Student-faculty ratio at the University of Mississippi is 19: 1, and 47.4 percent of schools have classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at the University of Mississippi include: Basic Education and Teaching; Marketing Management / Marketing, General; Accounting, Finance, General; Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration, other; Biology, Psychology and Criminal Justice; and Business Administration and Management, General. The average level of student retention, student satisfaction indicator, was 80.8 percent.

Division of the University:

Ventress Hall

Degree-granting divisions located on the main campus in Oxford:

• School of Accounting
• School of Applied Sciences
• School of Business Administration
• School of Education
• Technical school
• College of Liberal Arts
• Graduate School
• Law School
• School of Pharmacy
• School of Journalism and New Media
• General Studies Program

Medicinal cannabis farmed by the University to government

The schools on the campus of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson:

• School of Dentistry
• School of Health Related Professions
• School of Nursing (with the satellite unit at the main campus)
• School of Medicine
• The Graduate School of Health Sciences

University of Mississippi Medical Center surgeons, led by Dr. James Hardy, perform human lung transplant first in the world, in 1963, and the animal-to-human heart transplant in the world's first, in 1964. The core of the chimpanzees used for heart transplantation because of research Dr. Hardy on the transplant, which consists of a study of primates during the nine previous years.

University of Mississippi Field Station is located in Abbeville is a natural laboratory used to study, research and teaching about sustainable freshwater ecosystems.

Since 1968, the school operates only legal marijuana farm and production facilities in the United States. The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) contracts for the university production of marijuana for use in approved research studies on the plant as well as for distribution to the surviving seven medical marijuana patients grandfathered into the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program (established in 1978 and was canceled in 1991).

University houses one of the largest archive of blues in the United States. Some contributions to the collection donated by BB King who donated the entire collection of personal records. The Mamie and Ellis Nassour Arts & Entertainment Collection, highlighted by a wealth of theater and film scripts, photographs, and memorabilia, dedicated in September 2005. The archive includes the Blues first ever commercial recording, a song called "Crazy Blues" recorded by Mamie Smith in 1920.

In addition to providing education on the university campus, the university also provide knowledge and additional information to their students through the university library. Where the university library is home to nearly 1.9 million volume collection and features the Hall of Mississippi Writers and paper James Meredith.

Not only that, the university is also home to the last-known writer, William Faulkner and one of the greatest places in the world for the collection of blues recordings archive, where BB King donated the entire collection of personal records for this university.

With proud school colors, namely blue and red cardinals, as well as mascots, nicknamed the Rebels, the university sports teams compete with other universities in the NCAA Division I Athletics competition.