• Oldest institution of higher learning in Mississippi, established in 1826.
  
• Oldest, Largest Private College in Mississippi
  
• Second-oldest Baptist college in the United States
  
• The first coeducational college in America to grant degrees to women. Two were graduated in 1831 - Alice Robinson and Catherine Hall.
  
• U. S. News and World Report ranks MC 22nd in academic reputation in the 2002 edition of U. S. News and World Reports's rankings among Southern universities, and we are ranked in the top ten category of "best values" in the 2001 edition. MC was among only two Mississippi universities rated in the top tier; and was ranked 31st in Best Universities - Masters in the Southern Region.
  
• For ten consecutive years, MC has been selected on the Honor Roll of Character Building Institutions as selected by the John Templeton Foundation.
  
• According to Franklin and Marshall College Baccalaureate Origin of Doctorate Recipients, 7th Edition,
  
  • MC ranks #19 in the nation in the number of undergraduate students who have pursued and have been awarded doctoral degrees in all fields. MC is the top rated institution in our class in the southeast.
    
  • Since 1920, MC has ranked number one in the nation in professional areas such as business, theology, etc.
    
  • MC ranks in the top 2.5 percent in the field of education, top 3.5 percent in the non-sciences, and the top 17 percent in the sciences.
    
• In the past five years, 73 percent of MC students who have applied to medical school have been accepted, an acceptance rate of almost twice the national average according to the Association of American Medical Colleges for 1997-1998. With less than 5 percent of the total student population in the state, Mississippi College has averaged MC students filling 10 percent of of the medical school class at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine for the past five years.
  
• The Mississippi College dental school acceptance rate for the past five years has been 76 percent. MC has supplied 16 percent of the dental students to the University Medical Center during that period of time.
  
• Graduates of the School of Nursing consistently score higher than the state and national averages on the NCLEX-RN exam (Mississippi Board of Nursing).
  
• MC has had the most American Chemical Society Certified Chemistry Graduates (41 of them) of any institution in Mississippi from 1991-2001.
  
• The United States Water Fitness Association has awarded Mississippi College's Aquatic Program its number one ranking in the U.S. among all college programs for 2001.
  
• The Mississippi College School of Education has been NCATE accredited for over 40 years, having the distinction of being the first private institution in Mississippi to be accredited by NCATE and the second university in the state of Mississippi to be given this accreditation.
  
• The Department of Psychology and Counseling is the first institution of higher learning in Mississippi to receive accreditation by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) in the areas of Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. It also received accreditation by CACREP in the area of School Counseling.
  
• MC also holds national accreditations in the areas of Sociology, Nursing, Music, business, law, social work, and chemistry.
  
• Mississippi College Art Department offers a Master of Fine Arts degree. Our school is the only Baptist institution to offer this degree in the nation and one of only six evangelical schools in the nation to offer this degree.
  
• The Chamber Choir of the MC Music Department was selected by blind audition tapes to perform for the American Choral Directors Association regional convention. The regional convention is composed of ten states. The MC Choir has been chosen for this honor twice and is the only Baptist school in the last five years to have a choir selected for this honor.
  
• The Mortar Board Cap & Grown Chapter of Mississippi College was awarded the 1999-2000 Golden Torch Award. MC was one of only 25 Mortar Board chapters from across the nation to be given this award.
  
• MC has had an active International Study Program for 14 years.

Distinguished alumni include:

• Five state governors
• Six Southern Baptist Convention Presidents
• Consecutive President and Executive Secretaries of the Baptist Sunday School Board from 1935-1984
• Director of the International Mission Board
• Presidents of several SBC seminaries
• Former heads of the American Medical Association and American Board of Pathology
• Flight Director of two Apollo missions
• Olympic Athlete
• Three former Chief Justices of the Mississippi Supreme Court
• and more than 100 college/university presidents.

Templeton Foundation
Honor Roll