University of Mississippi is Mississippi’s flagship public research university, with its main campus in Oxford and additional major operations at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Founded in 1848 and opening to students in 1849, the institution serves undergraduate, graduate, and professional students across a broad academic portfolio that includes liberal arts, business, engineering, education, law, pharmacy, and medicine. Its work combines teaching, research, health care, and public service across the state. The university organizes its academic mission through schools and colleges such as the College of Liberal Arts, School of Engineering, School of Law, School of Pharmacy, School of Business Administration, School of Education, and the medical center’s schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health related professions, graduate studies, and population health. It is classified among doctoral universities with very high research activity, and it supports research centers and institutes spanning fields from pharmacy and natural products to public policy and the humanities. The institution also operates a major academic medical center in Jackson that anchors clinical care, health-professions education, and biomedical research for Mississippi. University of Mississippi serves students from Mississippi, across the United States, and internationally, while maintaining a strong statewide role through extension, outreach, and professional preparation. Concrete examples of that role include the Mississippi Law Research Institute at the School of Law and the statewide health-care and training functions of the medical center. The university’s identity is also tied to intercollegiate athletics through the Ole Miss Rebels and to a residential campus experience in Oxford, while its larger mission centers on advancing education, discovery, and service for Mississippi and beyond.