Flagship.

[biguglyjoe]

<h5>PRELIMINARY ENROLLMENT FIGURES</h5>
Alcorn State University
2009: 3,334
2010: 3,682
Change: 10.4%

Delta State University
2009: 4,031
2010: 4,324
Change: 7.3%

Jackson State University
2009: 8,783
2010: 8,689
Change: -1.1%

Mississippi State University
2009: 18,601
<span style="font-weight: bold;">2010: 19,644 </span>
Change: 5.6%

Mississippi University for Women
2009: 2,476
2010: 2,592
Change: 4.7%

Mississippi Valley State University
2009: 2,850
2010: 2,491
Change: -12.6%

Ole Miss
2009: 15,932
2010: 17,067
Change: 7.1%
* With the combined enrollment from UMC, Ole Miss' enrollment is 19,536.

University of Mississippi Medical Center
2009: 2,412
2010: 2,469
Change: 2.4%

University of Southern Mississippi
2009: 15,293
2010: 15,778
Change: 3.2%

System Total
2009: 73,712
2010: 76,736

 

[biguglyjoe]

<h5>PRELIMINARY ENROLLMENT FIGURES</h5>
Alcorn State University
2009: 3,334
2010: 3,682
Change: 10.4%

Delta State University
2009: 4,031
2010: 4,324
Change: 7.3%

Jackson State University
2009: 8,783
2010: 8,689
Change: -1.1%

Mississippi State University
2009: 18,601
<span style="font-weight: bold;">2010: 19,644 </span>
Change: 5.6%

Mississippi University for Women
2009: 2,476
2010: 2,592
Change: 4.7%

Mississippi Valley State University
2009: 2,850
2010: 2,491
Change: -12.6%

Ole Miss
2009: 15,932
2010: 17,067
Change: 7.1%
* With the combined enrollment from UMC, Ole Miss' enrollment is 19,536.

University of Mississippi Medical Center
2009: 2,412
2010: 2,469
Change: 2.4%

University of Southern Mississippi
2009: 15,293
2010: 15,778
Change: 3.2%

System Total
2009: 73,712
2010: 76,736

 

[MedDawg]

OM counts resident doctors and students in 2-year non-baccalaureate programs in their UMC numbers. The residents are paid a salary and are official employees of the medical center. Neither should be counted in OM's numbers.

Also, OM people complain about OM's smaller State appropriations per student. However, they count the residents in their student totals but ignore the fact that the Federal Government pays the medical center over $100k for each resident employed by the medical center.

 

[topdawg.sixpack]

The Valley needs to be the first to go.

 

[TBonewannabe]

I wonder how much money is being flushed down the toilet to give a very subpar education.</p>

 

[patdog]

Unfortunately, those battles have been fought and lost. I doubt they can ever be won.

 

[TBonewannabe]

I think there was some type of merger between MSU and MUW but I can't remember if it was just for a few majors or some kind of university support services.</p>

 

[topdawg.sixpack]

Or so I was told by an elected official one time

 

[bulldogbaja]

"20,000 minds, working together to provide new ideas" or something last night. Thought it was weird.

 

[Ivehadbetter]

Watched the 40 minute interview yesterday.

Unfortunately, the redistricting rules that we have to follow are not going to help us as soon as I would like.

 

[FlabLoser]

Most of those small schools were created for segregation. But when segregation ended, eliminating those schools wasn't political at all and still isn't. So here we sit in a mountain of our own ****.

 

[gtowndawg]

I know that's been asked before but I never remember seeing an answer.

Thanks.

 

[Sarc Dawg]

all I could figure was employees and maybe some USM Gulf Coast students.

Regardless, USMis never good at math.

 

[fishwater99]

With all the new spending on Obamcare, the state of Mississippi has to start saving somewhere and this is definitely a waste of taxpayer dollars. Not only will it save the state money, but the students effected will be recieving a much better education, if they can get in the school and graduate.

 

[Shmuley]

to suck on the PERS teat, I'd be cinching my sphincter. Even those untouchable MFers are getting looked at.

 

[MedDawg]

nm</p>

 

[Liverdawg]

the fact that (very recently) the acceptance rate into UMC was higher for State grads than for UM grads.

 

[urethrafranklin]

why do small schools need to be consolidated into bigger ones? aside from administrative costs, i don't believe there is any data that alleges that bigger schools deliver better education than smaller ones. personally as a student, I want as many in-state options as possible. it has to be cheaper to simply improve schools as opposed to arbitrarily combine two schools that may be close, but still have considerable distance between them. i just find it odd that the go to move for making schools better is to combine them.

 

[saltybulldog]

Having more options actually waters down the product from all schools. How do you "simply improve schools"? there is no such thing. Besides, Mississippi's idea of improving a school is to dump more money into it...not actually correct problems. For MS, reduction of institutional options is low hanging fruit that our morons in charge will not pick.

A quick example, we have 3 engineering schools in this state. That is 2 more than we need. If we could create one school, the research funding would be better utilized, the overall professor pool would be better, and the students would benefit from all of this. Better and cheaper.

 

[Xenomorph]

..does that number include Massoli?

 

[57stratdawg]

Think about the cost that goes into keeping MUW, Valley, and I would even throw in some JUCOs, open.

You have keep the buildings and campus maintained.
You have to pay the teachers and administrators.
You have to fund research projects (I guess).
Not to mention any type of new construction around campus.

I say consolidate about 25% of the higher institutions in this states and figure out something to do with the campuses. Some could become specialty HS campus (MS Math and Science, School of the Arts in Brookhaven), maybe you can turn some into private research areas.

 

[TBonewannabe]

How much money is dumped into Valley for their 10s of fans that buy $3 tickets and don't donate back to the school.

 

[urethrafranklin]

you can improve schools a number of ways: make professor salaries better to attract better professors (also, a good department head will surely help this), create more research positions, improve the library, or simply cap enrollment for a couple years. and while i do agree most problems have money thrown at them, Mississippi schools aren't getting more funding any time soon; this means that they will simply have to smarten up with the money they spend by downsizing where possible and hiring effectively when they do, that isn't even taking into account the possibility of taking on more research ventures with companies like state has done. IMO, the worst thing the state can do is have three separate state university systems when none of the satellite schools are particularly big because in the end those schools aren't really asked to contribute to the state's academic goals when they damn well should be. The reality is that colleges do not educate students very well when specialization is the name of the game (an engineer that can't write very well isn't going to be very attractive to an employer), and in mississippi the schools tend to have a regional bias.<div>
</div><div>and i would be quick to point out that engineering probably isn't the best example given that engineering programs require a pretty high amount of funding compared to other majors -- just like state won't have a medical or law program any time soon. but for the arts & sciences, business, and even regular sciences, a good program can be set up within a few years for relatively little money, and bring back good returns a few years down the line. the reality is just the mississippi has not focused its funds on department leadership at the lower tier schools.</div>