Hey guys, I'm Ferrari St. Paul,
and this is YOUniversity TV
where we put "you"
in "university."
Today we are touring Ole Miss
in Oxford, Mississippi,
aka "The Little Easy."
The University of Mississippi
sits between the rolling hills
of Northern Mississippi
in the town of Oxford.
Oxford is beautiful
and charming.
As they say; it's a small town
with big city culture and style.
Oxford's also where
literary giant
William Faulkner called home.
He lived in this house right
here called Rowan Oak.
Let's take a look inside.
Oxford is listed in the best 100
small towns in America,
and featured in the most
beautiful cities in the south.
The heart of Oxford's 1100 acre
campus known as "The Grove,"
is a place for tailgating,
attending concerts,
or just sitting back, relaxing
and studying in the shade
of the magnolia and oak trees.
It was designed by the guy
that did Central Park.
On football Saturdays it serves
as a class reunion for seven,
seven weekends out of the year.
Thousands of people just
out to support the Rebels.
A sea of tents, and it's
everything from women
in cocktail dresses
to kids in sweatshirts
and shorts and flip flops,
it's really exciting.
UM has nearly 13,000
undergraduate students.
Fifty-three percent women,
47 percent men.
Thirty-three percent
of undergraduates
come from out of state,
19 percent are minorities
and international students
from 66 different nations.
I'll just say if we get
you here on campus
and they look around at
the campus and they meet
the people, they meet professors
they meet other students,
staff members,
they'll decide to come here.
All students completing
the college preparatory
curriculum with a minimum
3.2 high school GPA
will be automatically admitted.
Those completing the CPC
with a 2.5 GPA
must have a minimum ACT score
of 16 or a 760 on the SAT.
For more info on this check out
Ole Miss's website
at olemiss.edu.
I just fell in love with
the Ole Miss family
and it felt like home
right off the bat.
If you live in Mississippi
tuition will run
about $5,000,
while out of staters will
pay about $12,500.
Plus, all students will be
charged an average
of $3,500 a year for their
on campus pad.
Mississippi offers more
than 100 academic programs
including the only
comprehensive Chinese
program in the region,
and harder to find majors
like geological engineering
and forensic chemistry.
We have the only daily student
newspaper in the state
which truly is one of
the best in the country,
there are awards to prove it.
Ole Miss is the largest
employer in Lafayette county
giving 817 teaching jobs,
298 are even tenured.
The student to faculty
ratio is 19 to one,
not bad for such a large school.
Faculty are outstanding here,
they know you by name.
They really want you to succeed
and they'll bend over backwards
and go the extra mile to make
sure that you reach your goals.
Eighteen men's and women's
Rebels teams compete
in the southeastern conference
of the NCAA Division I level.
The Rebel football teams
have claimed three
national championships
and six southeastern conference
titles, won 19 ballgames
and sent over 200 players
to the NFL including
quarterback Eli Manning
who threw a touchdown
in the last 35 seconds
of the game,
leading the New York Giants
to win the 2008 Super Bowl.
And former football player
Archie Manning's jersey number
is the speed limit when you're
cruising through school streets.
We're just really passionate
about being Ole Miss Rebels.
Ole Miss has 13 on campus men's
and women's residence halls
and apartment facilities.
In addition to
the various sorority
and fraternity housing
you'll find on campus.
In the dorms are where
I met all of my friends,
it's really convenient,
we are within ten minutes
from every class.
We have convenience stores
in the residence halls
so you never ever have to leave.
You'll find more than 200
student organizations on campus.
There are several
international organizations
and a visual
and performing arts club.
Everything from social groups
to political groups,
to community service groups,
special interest groups.
We have a vibrant
Greek life here on campus.
You can get involved
with anything.
If they don't have it,
you can make it.
Interested in research?
From physical acoustics
to medical studies,
it's all happening here.
In a government
approved project
with the National Institute
for Drug Abuse,
the University is allowed
to grow Cannabis
to study its addictive qualities
as well as
its medical benefits
in patient care.
You know, we have so many
National Research Institutes
the National Center
for Physical Acoustics,
one of the really unique
things that they did
was after the World
Trade Center bombing
we sent a lot of our new
research equipment to go
and check for the stability
of building two.
That sort of research is really
important to the Nation
and it's going on at
the University of Mississippi.
Dun, dun, dun, dun nah,
I got the Blues.
Ole Miss's Blues archive houses
the world's most extensive
Blues collection.
It even includes all of
B.B. King's personal records.
If you're looking for
a large university
where you can stand out and you
can have your own niche
and you can know a lot of people
but never know everybody,
Ole Miss is the place for you.
Set up a meet and greet
at the University of
Mississippi today.
Thanks for joining us here
in Oxford, Mississippi
on our tour of the University
of Mississippi.
I'm Ferrari St. Paul and I will
see you around campus.
