UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI - OLE MISS
Experience life in the Mecca of the South
QUICK FACTS
Location: Oxford, Mississippi, USA
City Size: Intimate
University Type: All American Campus
Cost of Living: Similar to Norwich
Local Language: English
Be Inspired: Watch Parts Unknown Season 3 Episode 6: Mississippi Delta. In it Bourdain explores the Delta and eats with award winning John Currence who runs four restaurants in Oxford.
What's Unique: The university is home to the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, which helps build more inclusive communities worldwide.
WHY CHOOSE OLE MISS
The University of Mississippi, better known as Ole Miss, is a large public institution in the college town of Oxford. With more than 16,500 students on its beautifully landscaped Oxford campus, the university brings together the best that a public university offers while still providing qualities most often found at expensive private colleges.
Outside the classroom, students can get involved in more than 250 student organisations, including service, student government, honorary, professional, Greek, religious, visual and performing arts, political, special interest and international groups. They attend lectures by renowned speakers and enjoy world-class musical and theatrical performances at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.
Students also run a daily newspaper, radio and TV station, and they like to participate in sports and recreation. Offerings include a fitness centre and classes, swimming pool, intramurals and sports clubs, a golf course and a 10-acre outdoor sports complex with zip lining and wall climbing. They also go on skiing, hiking, rafting and other adventure trips sponsored by Ole Miss Outdoors.
The University of Mississippi is located in the heart of the American South, in the north-central region of Mississippi, in a town called Oxford. Downtown Oxford looks like a picturebook American town from years gone past. It's a small town with a big vision and touted as 'the cultural Mecca of the South'. Full of artists and musicians, the town is well known throughout the United States for its delicious Southern cuisine and great literary traditions, including local writers William Faulkner and John Grisham. As you might expect football is huge in this town and the campus' Grove is the place to 'tailgate' before games. As they say in Oxford "Ole Miss may not win the game, but we will always win the party." Oxford, Mississippi, is about 80 miles (130 km) south of Memphis, Tennessee so there's plenty to explore beyond the campus. Its proximity to Memphis, Nashville and New Orleans is what's inspired it's legacy as a musical town.
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