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The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi, and is the third largest university in the state. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford, four branch campuses located in Booneville, Grenada, Tupelo, and Southaven as well as the University of Mississippi Medical Center inJackson. It also operates the University of Mississippi Field Station in Abbeville. Sixty-nine percent of undergraduates are from Mississippi, and nineteen percent of all students are minorities. International students come from sixty-six nations

History

The University got its nickname "Ole Miss" via a contest in 1897. That same year, the student yearbook was being published for the firsttime. As a way to find a name for the book, a contest was held to solicit any suggestions from the student body. Elma Meek, a student at the time, submitted the winning entry of Ole Miss. This sobriquet was chosen not only for the yearbook, but also became the name by which the University is now known.[
The Lyceum, built in 1848, is the oldest building on campus. In its first year, it housed allof the classrooms and faculty offices of the university. The Lyceum is now the home of the university's administration offices. The columned facade of the Lyceum is represented on the official crest of the university, along with the date of establishment.
The School of Medicine, which was originally located at the eastern gate of the campus, was used as a hospital during the Civil War for bothUnion and Confederate soldiers, especially those who were wounded at the battle of Shiloh. Soldiers who died in the campus hospital were buried in a mass grave located at the northeast corner of the Coliseum which was built nearly 100 years later as a venue for concerts and basketball games. The School of Medicine, then providing the first two years of pre-clinical education and granting medicalcertificates, was moved to the western edge of campus into Billy S Guyton Hall in 1934. After the medical school moved to the new University Hospital in Jackson, Guyton Hall housed the ROTC units. After a complete renovation in 2005 it currently houses the School of Education.
The School of Medicine is now located in Jackson, Mississippi. The original building, renamed Brady Hall in honor of aformer head nurse, served first as a dormitory for male students, and then as the home of the Music Department in its last years before being condemned in the early 1970s. It was replaced by a new Chemistry building in the mid 1970s.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, classes were interrupted when the entire student body and many faculty from Ole Miss enlisted in the Confederate army. Theircompany, Company A, 11th Mississippi Infantry, was nicknamed the University Greys, and suffered a 100% casualty rate during the Civil War.[6] A great number of those casualties occurred during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, when the University Greys made the deepest encroachment into Union territory. Some of the soldiers actually crossed the Union defensive fortificationwall, only to be killed, wounded or captured. On the very next day, July 4, Confederate forces surrendered at Vicksburg, Mississippi; the two battles together are commonly viewed as the turning point in the war. When Ole Miss re-opened, only one member of the University Greys was able to visit the university to address the student body. The university was led, during the post-war period, by formerConfederate general A.P. Stewart, a Rogersville, Tennessee native, who was President from 1874-1886.
Divisions of the university.

The degree-granting divisions located at the Main Campus:

School of Accountancy

School of Applied Sciences

School of Business Administration

School of Education

School of Engineering

College of Liberal Arts

Graduate School

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