Mississippi State University

Mississippi State University, formally Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, is a public land-grant research university in Mississippi State, Mississippi, a university town adjoining Starkville in the north-eastern part of the United States state of Mississippi.密西西比州立大学正式全称为密西西比州立农业与应用科学大学，是美国密西西比州东北部密西西比州立镇的一所公立赠地研究型大学，该镇紧邻斯塔克维尔市。

Chartered on 28 February 1878 as Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, it admitted its first students in 1880 under president Stephen D. Lee and is today classified among the Carnegie R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.该校于 1878 年 2 月 28 日以密西西比农业与机械学院之名获得特许，1880 年在校长斯蒂芬·D·李主持下迎来首批学生，如今位列卡内基 R1 类科研活动极活跃的博士型大学。

It enrolled a record 23,563 students in fall 2025, offers more than 180 degree programmes through 12 colleges and schools, is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, recorded 51,628 works with 2,516,002 citations in OpenAlex, and is the only public university in Mississippi to have grown in 10 of the past 11 years.该校 2025 年秋季在校生达创纪录的 23563 人，通过 12 个学院开设 180 余个学位项目，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 1001-1200 位，据 OpenAlex 记载有 51628 篇文献与 2516002 次被引，且是密西西比州唯一在过去 11 年中有 10 年实现增长的公立高校。

History

• The university's origins lie in the federal Morrill Act of 1862, which granted public land to the states for colleges teaching agriculture and the mechanical arts, a framework Mississippi took up in the following decade.该校的源头可溯至 1862 年联邦《莫里尔法案》，该法向各州拨地兴办教授农业与机械技艺的学院，密西西比州在随后十年间着手落实这一框架。

• The Mississippi Legislature created the institution on 28 February 1878 as The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi, commonly called Mississippi A&M.密西西比州议会于 1878 年 2 月 28 日创设该校，定名密西西比州农业与机械学院，通称密西西比 A&M。

• Its founding charter called for instruction in agriculture, horticulture and the mechanical arts without excluding other scientific and classical studies, including military tactics.其建校章程规定教授农业、园艺与机械技艺，同时不排除其他科学与古典学科，其中包括军事战术。

• The first students arrived in the fall of 1880 under the presidency of General Stephen D. Lee, a former Confederate commander who led the college through its opening decade.首批学生于 1880 年秋入学，时任校长为斯蒂芬·D·李将军，这位前邦联将领主持了该校创办后的头十年。

• Congress passed the Hatch Act in 1887, under which the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station was established in 1888 to give the college a research arm.国会 1887 年通过《哈奇法案》，据此密西西比农业试验站于 1888 年设立，为该校奠定了科研建制。

• The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 created the Cooperative Extension Service, extending the college's teaching work into every county of the state.1914 年《史密斯-利弗法案》催生了合作推广服务处，把该校的教学工作延伸至全州各县。

• In 1932 the Legislature renamed the institution Mississippi State College, a change that accompanied the growth of its agricultural, engineering and industrial schools.1932 年州议会将其更名为密西西比州立学院，此次更名伴随着农科、工科与工业类学院的扩张。

• A Graduate School was organised in 1936, opening the way to advanced degrees that the college had not previously been able to award.研究生院于 1936 年组建，为此前无法授予高级学位的该校开辟了新路径。

• Doctoral degree programmes began in 1951, the university's first step into research doctorates.博士项目于 1951 年开办，是该校迈入研究型博士教育的第一步。

• The School of Forest Resources was established in 1954 and the College of Arts and Sciences replaced the General Science School in 1956.林业资源学院于 1954 年设立，文理学院则于 1956 年取代了此前的通识科学学院。

• In 1958 the Legislature renamed the university Mississippi State University in recognition of its academic development and the addition of graduate programmes.1958 年州议会将其更名为密西西比州立大学，以承认其学术发展及研究生教育的扩充。

• The university was desegregated in July 1965 when Richard E. Holmes became its first African-American student, a year after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was being debated.该校于 1965 年 7 月实现种族融合，理查德·E·霍姆斯成为首位非裔学生，此时正值 1964 年《民权法案》通过一年之后、1965 年《选举权法案》审议之际。

• Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, formed the legal backdrop to that change.1954 年最高法院在「布朗诉教育委员会案」中裁定公立学校种族隔离违宪，构成了这一转变的法律背景。

• The University Honors Program was founded in 1968 and later grew into the Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College.大学荣誉项目于 1968 年创设，其后发展为朱迪与博比·沙库尔斯荣誉学院。

• The School of Architecture admitted its first students in 1973, giving Mississippi its only accredited programme in the field.建筑学院于 1973 年迎来首批学生，为密西西比州提供了该领域唯一获得认证的项目。

• The College of Veterinary Medicine admitted its first class in 1977 and remains the largest veterinary school under one roof in the United States.兽医学院于 1977 年录取首届学生，至今仍是美国规模最大的单一建筑兽医学院。

• The School of Accountancy was established in 1979, and the School of Architecture's degree programme followed the same decade as the campus's building stock expanded.会计学院于 1979 年成立，建筑学院的学位项目也在同一十年内随校园建筑规模的扩大而逐步定型。

• In November 1999 the Congressional and Political Research Center opened on the first floor of the main library, housing the papers of Senator John C. Stennis and Congressman G. V. Montgomery, nicknamed Sonny.1999 年 11 月，国会与政治研究中心在主图书馆一层启用，收藏参议员约翰·C·斯坦尼斯与众议员 G·V·蒙哥马利（绰号「桑尼」）的档案。

• The Charles H. Templeton Collection, transferred to the libraries in 2000, brought more than 200 instruments, 22,000 pieces of sheet music and 13,000 records to the campus, among them the most complete set of Victor Talking Machines from their 1897 debut to 1930.2000 年移交给图书馆的查尔斯·H·坦普尔顿藏品，为校园带来 200 余件乐器、22000 份乐谱与 13000 张唱片，其中包括 1897 年维克多留声机问世至 1930 年间最完整的机种序列。

• A digitisation project launched in 2001 has archived and catalogued more than 6,000 pieces of that sheet music.2001 年启动的数字化项目已归档并编目其中 6000 余份乐谱。

• The first Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival was held in March 2007, the first event of its kind in Mississippi.首届查尔斯·坦普尔顿拉格泰姆爵士音乐节于 2007 年 3 月举办，是密西西比州首个此类活动。

• Mississippi State concluded a seven-year capital campaign in March 2009, having received more than $462 million in private gifts and pledges.密西西比州立大学于 2009 年 3 月结束为期七年的资本筹款运动，共获 4.62 亿美元以上的私人捐赠与认捐。

• In May 2012, on the 50th anniversary of the Ulysses S. Grant Association, the university was named the permanent home of Ulysses S. Grant's presidential papers.2012 年 5 月，在尤利西斯·S·格兰特协会成立 50 周年之际，该校被选定为格兰特总统文献的永久收藏地。

• As one of the few universities in the nation to hold presidential papers, it catalogued and cross-referenced 15,000 linear feet of Grant material, later edited into 32 published volumes.作为全美少数收藏总统文献的高校之一，该校对 15000 英尺长的格兰特档案作了编目与交叉索引，这些文献后来被编成 32 卷出版。

Academics

• MSU is organised into 12 colleges and schools, among them Agriculture and Life Sciences, Architecture Art and Design, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Forest Resources and Veterinary Medicine.该校设有 12 个学院，包括农业与生命科学、建筑艺术与设计、文理、商业、教育、林业资源与兽医学等学院。

• Its specialist units include the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering, the Richard C. Adkerson School of Accountancy, the Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College and the School of Human Sciences.其专门学院包括詹姆斯·沃思·巴格利工程学院、理查德·C·阿德克森会计学院、朱迪与博比·沙库尔斯荣誉学院以及人类科学学院。

• The university offers more than 180 baccalaureate, graduate and professional degree programmes across those units, spanning bachelor's, master's, specialist and doctoral levels.上述各学院合计开设 180 余个学士、研究生与专业学位项目，覆盖学士、硕士、专家与博士各层次。

• It is home to Mississippi's only accredited programmes in architecture and in veterinary medicine.该校拥有密西西比州唯一获得认证的建筑学与兽医学项目。

• Accreditation runs through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, which authorises bachelor's, master's, specialist and doctoral degrees.其认证由南方院校协会院校委员会授予，可颁发学士、硕士、专家与博士学位。

• Enrollment reached an all-time high of 23,563 in fall 2025, up more than 400 from the 23,150 recorded in fall 2024, with 4,049 first-time students and a 12.6 per cent rise in first-time enrolment.2025 年秋季在校生达历史最高的 23563 人，比 2024 年秋季的 23150 人多出 400 余人，其中首次入学学生 4049 人，首次入学人数同比增长 12.6%。

• It is the only public institution in Mississippi to have grown in 10 of the past 11 years.该校是密西西比州唯一在过去 11 年中有 10 年实现增长的公立高校。

• Its 160 buildings and grounds cover about 4,200 acres including farms, pastures and woodlands of the Experiment Station, and it owns a further 80,000 acres across the state.其 160 座建筑与校园占地约 4200 英亩，含试验站的农场、牧场与林地，另在全州拥有 8 万英亩土地。

• MSU participates in the National Sea Grant College Program and the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, and its applied work runs through the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service.该校参与全国海洋赠地学院计划与全国太空赠地学院与奖学金计划，其应用研究则通过密西西比农业试验站与合作推广服务处开展。

• Research expenditures reached $320 million in fiscal year 2024, more than half of all higher-education research spending in Mississippi.其 2024 财年科研支出达 3.2 亿美元，超过密西西比州高等教育科研总支出的一半。

• According to the university's own impact assessment, that spending supports 5,630 jobs statewide.据校方影响评估，这笔支出在全州支撑 5630 个就业岗位。

• The Mitchell Memorial Library holds 2,124,341 volumes and 70,331 journals, sits at the heart of the campus, and is one of the few university libraries in the country to hold a president's papers.米切尔纪念图书馆藏有 2124341 册图书与 70331 种期刊，位于校园中心，也是全美少数收藏总统文献的高校图书馆之一。

• Ulysses S. Grant's presidential papers, catalogued with 15,000 linear feet of material, are housed there and have been published in 32 edited volumes.尤利西斯·S·格兰特的总统文献经 15000 英尺长材料的编目后收藏于此，并已编成 32 卷出版。

• The John Grisham Room opened on the library's third floor in May 1998 to display the papers the novelist donated in 1989, now over 42 cubic feet in extent.约翰·格里沙姆厅于 1998 年 5 月在图书馆三层开放，展出这位小说家 1989 年捐赠的档案，总量现已逾 42 立方英尺。

• The Templeton Music Museum on the fourth floor shows instruments from the collection, which was valued at more than $495,000 in 1989.四层的坦普尔顿音乐博物馆展出藏品中的乐器，该藏品 1989 年估值超过 49.5 万美元。

• Named research platforms include the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, the High Performance Computing Collaboratory and the Social Science Research Center.具名科研平台包括先进车辆系统中心、高性能计算协作实验室与社会科学研究中心，后者在全国范围内颇受认可。

• These sit largely within the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park, the university's research and commercial hub.这些机构大多设于萨德·科克伦研究、技术与经济发展园内，该园是该校的科研与产业枢纽。

• The College of Engineering offers a Master of Science degree in Vicksburg in cooperation with the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station.工程学院与美国陆军工程师水道试验站合作，在维克斯堡开设理学硕士项目。

Campus

• The main campus lies mostly within the Mississippi State census-designated place, with a small portion inside Starkville, at about latitude 33.45049 and longitude minus 88.81961.主校区大部分位于密西西比州立普查指定地区内，小部分落在斯塔克维尔市，处北纬 33.45049、西经 88.81961 附近。

• Its centre is the main quadrangle known as the Drill Field, named for its heavy use by the Corps of Cadets before the end of the Second World War, when it served as the ceremonial centre of student life.其中心是名为操演场的中央方院，因二战结束前学员队在此密集操练而得名，当时这里也是学生生活的礼仪中心。

• Lee Hall and Swalm Hall, mirror-image buildings at the north and south ends of the Drill Field, frame the space, whose largest building is Mitchell Memorial Library.位于操演场南北两端的李楼与斯瓦姆楼互为镜像，界定出这一空间，其中体量最大者为米切尔纪念图书馆。

• Old Main, the original dormitory west of Lee Hall, burned in a fire and was replaced by the Colvard Student Union.位于李楼以西的原初宿舍「老主楼」毁于火灾，后由科尔瓦德学生会大楼取代。

• Beyond the main campus lie the North and South Farms, still used for agricultural research and now also hosting the astronomical observatory, the Veterinary College on South Farm and the High Performance Computing Collaboratory on North Farm.主校区之外是北农场与南农场，仍用于农业研究，并新增了天文观测台、位于南农场的兽医学院，以及位于北农场的高性能计算协作实验室。

• Fraternity and sorority houses stand at the far west of the campus, beyond which lie the Cotton District and downtown Starkville.兄弟会与姐妹会会所位于校园最西侧，其外即为棉花区与斯塔克维尔市中心。

• The Williams Building, which houses the campus police department, was designed by the architect Emmett J. Hull.容纳校园警察部门的威廉斯楼由建筑师埃米特·J·赫尔设计。

• The Junction, once a congested convergence of five roadways nicknamed Malfunction Junction, is now a pedestrian core anchored by Davis Wade Stadium, a Barnes and Noble bookstore and the University Welcome Center, and it is the site of pre-game tailgating before Bulldog home football games.一度因五条道路交汇而拥堵、绰号「故障路口」的交汇区，如今是以戴维斯·韦德体育场、巴诺书店与大学欢迎中心为地标的步行核心区，也是斗牛犬队主场橄榄球赛前聚餐聚集的场地。

• Beyond the main campus, MSU runs auxiliary campuses in Meridian, Gautier and Biloxi and a degree-granting centre in Meridian.主校区之外，该校在默里迪恩、戈蒂耶与比洛克西设有辅助校区，并在默里迪恩设学位授予中心。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Mississippi State is placed in the 1001-1200 band, the joint interval position shared by the universities in that group.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，密西西比州立大学列于第 1001-1200 位，即该组院校并列的名次区间。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 701-800 band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列于第 701-800 位。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it stands 888th.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校列第 888 位。

• Its best showing among the four major tables is the 601-700 band in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking of World Universities, the ARWU.在四大主榜中，其最好表现为 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名第 601-700 位。

• OpenAlex records 51,628 works and 2,516,002 citations for the university, a research footprint built on its land-grant agricultural, engineering and veterinary strengths.OpenAlex 记载该校有 51628 篇文献与 2516002 次被引，这一科研体量建立在赠地院校的农科、工科与兽医优势之上。

• Its fiscal 2024 research expenditures of $320 million account for more than half of Mississippi's higher-education research spending.其 2024 财年 3.2 亿美元的科研支出，占密西西比州高等教育科研支出的一半以上。

• The Carnegie Foundation classifies it as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity, the top tier of American research universities, and its doctoral production is concentrated in agriculture, engineering, the sciences and veterinary medicine.卡内基基金会将其归为科研活动极活跃的 R1 类博士型大学，即美国研究型大学的最高层级，其博士培养集中于农科、工科、理学与兽医学。

• Mississippi State was a founding member of the Southeastern Conference in 1932 and its 16 Bulldog teams compete in NCAA Division I.密西西比州立大学是 1932 年东南联盟的创始成员，其 16 支「斗牛犬」队参加 NCAA 一级联赛。

• Its athletic record includes 28 conference championships, of which 14 are SEC titles, and 21 individual national championships.其竞技成绩包括 28 项联盟冠军（其中 14 项为东南联盟冠军）以及 21 项个人全国冠军。

• Its veterinary school, which admitted its first class in 1977, is the largest under one roof in the nation, and its architecture and veterinary medicine programmes are the only accredited ones in Mississippi.其兽医学院于 1977 年录取首届学生，为全美规模最大的单一建筑兽医学院，其建筑学与兽医学项目亦为密西西比州唯一获得认证者。

Student life

• MSU has over 300 student organisations, ranging from the Student Association and the Famous Maroon Band to the MSU Road Runners, the Residence Hall Association, the Black Student Alliance and the Engineering Student Council.该校有 300 多个学生组织，从学生自治会、著名栗色乐队到 MSU 跑者协会、宿舍协会、黑人学生联盟与工程学生会不一而足。

• Its Greek system comprises 20 fraternities and 14 sororities, and in 2019 24 per cent of undergraduate men and 18 per cent of undergraduate women were active members.其希腊式社团体系由 20 个兄弟会与 14 个姐妹会组成，2019 年有 24% 的本科男生与 18% 的本科女生参与其中。

• The Reflector, the student newspaper, is published twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays and was named the number one college newspaper in the South in 2007 by the Southeast Journalism Conference.学生报纸《反射镜》每周二、周五各出一期，曾于 2007 年被东南新闻会议评为南方第一高校报纸。

• Campus radio is carried by WMSV, which succeeded the student-run low-power station WMSB, on air from 1971 until 1986.校园广播由 WMSV 承担，它接替了 1971 年至 1986 年间播音的学生自办低功率电台 WMSB。

• The Old Main Music Festival is held free to the public each spring on campus, and Starkville has long been a tour stop for musicians.老主楼音乐节每年春季在校园举办，向公众免费开放，斯塔克维尔也长期是音乐人的巡演站点。

• Johnny Cash's 1965 appearance in Starkville ended in his arrest and inspired his song Starkville City Jail.约翰尼·卡什 1965 年在斯塔克维尔的到访以他被捕告终，并催生了歌曲《斯塔克维尔市监狱》。

• The Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival, first held in 2007, brings seminars, museum tours and concerts to campus each year.首届于 2007 年举办的查尔斯·坦普尔顿拉格泰姆爵士音乐节，每年为校园带来研讨会、博物馆参观与音乐会。

• A lecture series has brought Condoleezza Rice, Spike Lee, Neil deGrasse Tyson and alumnus John Grisham to campus, along with Nobel laureates Harry Kroto, J. M. G. Le Clezio and Joseph Stiglitz.系列讲座曾邀康多莉扎·赖斯、斯派克·李、尼尔·德格拉斯·泰森与校友约翰·格里沙姆来校，诺奖得主哈里·克罗托、J·M·G·勒克莱齐奥与约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨亦曾登台。

• Baseball culture is pervasive, with Dudy Noble Field holding all of the top 26 all-time NCAA attendance records and the Left Field Lounge described as an epicentre of college baseball.棒球文化在此深入人心：杜迪·诺布尔球场保持着 NCAA 历史上上座人数的前 26 项纪录，左外野休息区更被誉为大学棒球的中心。

• The literary magazine Jabberwock Review is based at MSU, and the campus also hosts Music Maker Productions and the Baptist Student Union among its cultural organisations.文学杂志《Jabberwock Review》设于该校，校园的文化类组织还包括音乐创制社与浸信会学生联合会。

Notable people

• General Stephen D. Lee served as the college's first president from 1880, after a career as a Confederate commander.斯蒂芬·D·李将军在结束邦联军旅生涯后，自 1880 年起出任该校首任校长。

• Dr. Mark E. Keenum, an alumnus, became the university's 19th president on 5 January 2009, having earlier served as chief of staff to U.S. Senator Thad Cochran and as Under Secretary of Agriculture.身为校友的马克·E·基纳姆博士于 2009 年 1 月 5 日出任该校第 19 任校长，此前曾任联邦参议员萨德·科克伦的幕僚长以及农业部副部长。

• John Grisham, best-selling author of legal thrillers, earned his law degree at Mississippi State and donated his papers to the university in 1989.法律惊悚小说畅销作家约翰·格里沙姆在密西西比州立大学取得法学学位，并于 1989 年向学校捐赠其档案。

• Jerry Rice, the Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver, played his college football at Mississippi State before a record-setting NFL career.职业橄榄球名人堂外接手杰里·赖斯在密西西比州立大学完成大学橄榄球生涯，其后进入创纪录的 NFL 征途。

• Rafael Palmeiro, a first baseman who reached 3,000 Major League hits, came out of the university's baseball programme.达成美国职业棒球大联盟 3000 支安打的一垒手拉斐尔·帕尔梅罗出自该校棒球项目。

• Will Clark, a six-time Major League All-Star, and World Series winners Jonathan Papelbon and Mitch Moreland also played baseball at Mississippi State.六度入选大联盟全明星的威尔·克拉克，以及世界大赛冠军乔纳森·帕佩尔本与米奇·莫兰，也都曾在该校打棒球；休·克里茨与戴尔·昂瑟等世界大赛冠军同样出自该校棒球项目。

• Marsha Blackburn, a graduate of the university, became a United States Senator from Tennessee.该校毕业生玛莎·布莱克本成为田纳西州的美国联邦参议员。

• Van Chancellor, a four-time WNBA championship-winning coach, and Kermit Davis, later head coach at Ole Miss, both studied at Mississippi State.四夺 WNBA 总冠军的教练范·钱斯勒与后来执教密西西比大学的科米特·戴维斯，都曾就读于密西西比州立大学。

• Richard E. Holmes, who enrolled in July 1965, is recorded as the university's first African-American student.1965 年 7 月入学的理查德·E·霍姆斯，被记载为该校首位非裔学生。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate is recorded among its alumni or faculty, though Nobel laureates Harry Kroto, J. M. G. Le Clezio and Joseph Stiglitz have lectured on its campus.其校友或教师中未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，但诺奖得主哈里·克罗托、J·M·G·勒克莱齐奥与约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨都曾在校园讲学。