Housing and Policies

• First-Year Students Guaranteed On-Campus Housing
• 98% of first-year students live in college housing
• 81% of all undergraduates live in college housing

Housing options:

• Coed Housing
• Women's Housing
• Fraternity/Sorority Housing
• Wellness housing (alcohol/drug/smoke-free)

• Deadline for housing deposit: Not reported
• Housing deposit is not refunded if student does not enroll.
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• First-time first-year students allowed to have car

Campus

• Urban setting
• Large city (250,000 - 499,999)
• Residential campus

• observatory, x-ray machine, earthquake seismograph, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, biocultural reserve and archaeological site in Yucatan, Mexico

• 190 miles from New Orleans, 210 miles from Memphis, Tennessee.

indicates availability
Choral groups		Concert band
Dance		Drama
Film society		Fraternities
Jazz band		Literary magazine
Marching band		Music ensembles
Musical theater		Opera
Radio station		Sororities
Student government		Student newspaper
Symphony orchestra		Television station
Yearbook

• Percent of men who join fraternities: 54%
• Percent of women who join sororities: 52%
• Student newspaper: The Purple & White

• Circle K, Campus Ministry Team, Black Student Association, Habitat for Humanity, Catholic Campus Ministry, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Millsaps College Republicans, Young Democrats, Multicultural Affairs Diversity Group, E.A.R.T.H. (environmental service club)