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Millsaps College

1701 N State St, Jackson, MS

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Millsaps College, founded in 1890, is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the South, and its small size, around 700 undergraduates, lets the college maintain unusually close faculty-student relationships relative to Mississippi's larger public universities. The college's Else School of Management offers one of the only accredited undergraduate business programs housed within a small liberal arts college in the state, giving Millsaps students access to genuine pre-professional business training alongside the broader liberal arts curriculum. Millsaps's Jackson, Mississippi campus gives students access to the state capital's business, legal, and government institutions, and the college's continued United Methodist Church affiliation shapes aspects of its institutional mission even as its student body includes students from a broad range of religious backgrounds. The college's combination of genuine academic selectivity, its accredited undergraduate business school, and its capital-city location has made Millsaps the leading small private liberal arts college in Mississippi, particularly for students seeking a smaller-scale alternative to the state's larger public flagships.

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