• Established in 1884 as the first public college for women in the United States, MUW is proud of its tradition of excellence for women and men.
   
• Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine ranked MUW 67 of the 100 best public colleges in America.
   
• U.S. News & World Report’s 2004 guide, “America’s Best Colleges,” ranked MUW a best value among Southern master’s universities. It is the seventh time in 10 years that MUW has been ranked a best value or best buy. MUW was the top ranked best value in the state of Mississippi and the 11th best value in the South.
   
• MUW's student population includes students from all over Mississippi, 19 states, and 24 countries.
   
• MUW is in the top 16 percent of 1,362 U.S. colleges and universities on student body diversity. MUW enrolls the second highest percentage of African-Americans among Mississippi’s historically white institutions. Approximately 28 percent of MUW’s students are African-Americans, and about 31 percent of MUW’s students are minorities.
   
• Among the many honors earned by the MUW faculty, Dr. William Glass, professor of history, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw in Poland.
   
• Amanda Hoffman, a recent graduate of MUW, was recognized as the national Spirit of Nursing award recipient by the U.S. Army Nursing Corps and National student Nurses Association. Hoffman was the first student in Mississippi to receive the Army's most prestigious nursing award.
   
• Graduates in MUW's Bachelor of Science in Nursing program have a 99.27 percent pass rate on the National Licensure Exam since inception of the program.
   
• MUW's Tennessee Valley Authority Investment Club won $10,000 for having the third best return on its portfolio for the past three years in the TVA Investment Challenge.
   
• In April 2002, staff members of MUW’s student newspaper, The Spectator, won first place awards from the Mississippi Press Association at the O.C. McDavid Journalism Conference in Jackson. Staff members also garnered awards at the 16th annual Southeast Journalism Conference.
   
• MUW’s highly regarded Culinary Arts Institute is one of the few programs of its kind in the nation offering a baccalaureate degree.
   
• MUW is one of a limited number of universities in the country and the only public institution in Mississippi to offer a bachelor's in music therapy.
   
• Lectures, seminars, programs, and our annual Welty Weekend at The W, which honors the university’s world-renowned alumna Eudora Welty, annually draws noted authors and scholars.
   
• MUW is home to the Mississippi Governor’s School and the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, the fourth public, residential high school for gifted students in the nation.
   
• With 23 of its more than 60 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places, MUW's campus is one of the nation's most architecturally distinguished and in the next five years will invest approximately $35 million on renewal of the campus, including new buildings and renovations of existing buildings.

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