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Mississippi is
home to thirteen private and eight public colleges and
universities. Each year, more than 120,000 students pursue a
wide range of disciplines in Mississippi institutions of
higher learning. Many of these colleges and
universities are within a one-hour commute of Attala County.
Kosciusko is home to
Magnolia Bible College.
Magnolia Bible
College, a fully accredited institution, provides liberal
arts and language courses plus Bachelor of Arts degrees in
Bible and Theology.
Mississippi's
colleges and universities include the following.
Please click
on the name of the institution to link to their official
website.
The Sumners Foundation, which
has been privately funded for over two decades, provides scholarship
opportunities to area residents.
The largest
state university near Attala County is Mississippi State
University.
 Mississippi
State University is a public, land-grant, doctoral, research
university classified as Doctoral/Research-Extensive by the
Carnegie Foundation. Its mission is to provide access and
opportunity to students from all sectors of the state's
diverse population and to offer excellent and extensive
programs in instruction, research, and outreach.
Enhancing its
historic strengths in agriculture, natural resources,
science, and engineering, Mississippi State entered the
twenty-first century with additional strengths in a
comprehensive range of graduate and undergraduate programs.
These include architecture, the arts, business, education,
the humanities, the social and behavioral sciences, and
veterinary medicine. The Meridian Campus focuses on meeting
the needs of place-bound students and working adults through
upper division and graduate programs in education, business,
liberal arts, and social work.
The State of
Mississippi, while recruiting Nissan to build a
manufacturing facility in central Mississippi, committed to
the establishment and continued operation of the Center for
Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State
University (MSU) with a branch of CAVS to be located near
the Nissan plant. The CAVS Research facility located at MSU
and the CAVS Extension facility located at Canton opened in
December 2003.
CAVS' mission
is to research and develop design and manufacturing means
and methods for producing superior quality vehicles with
advanced features and functions at reduced costs and shorter
product development times and exploiting the underlying
technologies for broader industrial use. The mission also
includes engineering extension, education and workforce
training outreach for industry.
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