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Millsaps is an accredited, privately-supported, national liberal arts college founded by the Methodist Church members in 1890. Consistently ranked as one of the best values in higher education, Millsaps has been praised by Colleges That Change Lives, The Princeton Review, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, the John Templeton Foundation, The Fiske Guide to Colleges, and Insight Magazine. Millsaps College is a member of the Annapolis Group. Millsaps is a selective undergraduate institution located on 100 beautiful acres in Jackson's heart, the capital of Mississippi—a progressive southern metropolitan city of nearly half a million population. An international airport serves Jackson's city with six passenger airlines and Interstate highways 55 and 20. Across the street and around the globe, Millsaps College students bring energy and purpose to their learning. Millsaps balances structure and freedom. Through the broad exploration of the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and business, students pursue individualized academic programs, gaining exposure to new disciplines, new points of view, and new possibilities. While building a solid base of knowledge in one of our many majors, students learn to integrate ideas across disciplines. These abilities distinguish our graduates, allowing them to succeed in any context and be nimble and flexible as contexts inevitably change. At Millsaps, choose your path. At Millsaps College, we focus on providing you with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in your career of choice—and we also recognize the value of beginning that career as soon as possible. The purpose of providing education—and not just a degree—is to prepare you for the changes invariably ahead during your working careers and your lives. This is part of our mission at Millsaps College. We want to help you build skills in creativity, versatility, adaptability, responsibility, and sustainability. We work to give you the confidence to think beyond the immediate task at hand, to look for opportunities to build, improve, and innovate. Whatever career path you eventually pursue, the Compass Curriculum at Millsaps College builds a strong foundation of skills and knowledge that will serve you well throughout your life. The most successful careers, particularly those that are quickly becoming vital to the 21st-century economy, are built upon abilities and values that include the willingness to question the status quo, think critically, communicate clearly, and seek connections between diverse ideas, practices, and communities. Our emphasis on finding connections and relationships between things not obviously related plays a particularly important role in your education. We will support your efforts to seek out and explore the common, but often overlooked, foundations between the liberal arts and disciplines such as business, science, math, and technology, and provide practical, hands-on opportunities through internships and research opportunities with experts in the field. The value of a Millsaps education begins in the classroom but continues far beyond. Millsaps students are engaged in learning on our campus, across the street in our city and region, and around the globe through our programs and partnerships abroad. The Office of Financial Aid endeavors to meet the financial need of all who apply, making the cost of Millsaps College affordable to those who wish to attend. Millsaps provides counseling for all students who need assistance in determining the best method of financing their college education. Building on its motto, Ad Excellentiam, its strong heritage of social justice, freedom of thought, and reflection on life's most important questions, and its central location in the capital city of Mississippi, Millsaps engages students in transformative learning and leadership experience that results in personal and intellectual growth, commitment to good citizenship in our global society, and a desire to succeed and make a difference in every community they touch. Millsaps College is dedicated to academic excellence, open inquiry and free expression, the exploration of faith to inform vocation, and the innovative shaping of our region's social, economic, and cultural progress. Study Abroad at Millsaps College provides students with a powerful tool for understanding and appreciating our complex world. Because Study Abroad is crucial to undergraduate and graduate education, we encourage all students to consider participating fully in the Millsaps experience by taking advantage of the many Study Abroad opportunities available. Our students are always astounded by the variety of on-campus activities and events that fill their lives outside of class. Conferences featuring authors like Natasha Trethewey, concerts and plays (spectating or performing), sorority and fraternity events, athletics, intramurals, working out in the fitness center, getting experience at on- and off-campus jobs, and over 80 clubs and organizations. It just amazes a 100-acre campus that can fit it all in. While Millsaps' academic experience is our reason for being, our student life activities are how Millsaps develops well-rounded graduates who appreciate all that life has to offer. You will want to check out our physical activities center, career center, plaza, and college center on-campus. These distinctive additions to our campus have dramatically increased student, faculty, and staff interaction opportunities. Whatever your extracurricular interest, you can pursue it at Millsaps. View full university