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1000 ASU Drive #930
Alcorn State, Mississippi 39096
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For more than 125 years, Alcorn State has educated leaders in the full range of professions
agriculture, the arts, business, human services, education, law, politics, medicine, and nursing.
An important reason for our graduates' success: At Alcorn, students form close, collaborative
relationships with faculty mentors.
Whatever your major, Alcorn professors will be there for you every step of the way: as you select
courses to fulfill our general education requirements in the liberal arts and sciences, as you
explore possible majors, and as you complete courses in the academic field of your choice.
Succeeding at Alcorn takes hard work, commitment, and determination. But you can count on support
all around you - from administrators, professors, and other students. Three out of four students
live on campus, and making friends is easy. Dozens of clubs and organizations offer opportunities
for getting involved, developing leadership skills, and just having fun. The supportive environment
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Undergraduate Population: 3
Graduate Population: 70
Percent Men: 50%
Percent Women: 50%
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Student Body: Coed
Degrees Available: Associate, Bachelor, Masters, Doctorate
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In State
Tuition: 3459
Out of State Tuition: 7965
Room & Board: 3821
Application Fee: $75.00 - Deadline: Rolling Admissions
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| History
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Alcorn State University was founded on the site originally occupied by Oakland College, a school
for whites established by the Presbyterian Church.
Oakland College closed its doors at the beginning of the Civil War so that its students could
answer the call to arms. Upon failing to reopen at the end of the war, the property was sold to
the state of Mississippi and renamed Alcorn University in honor of James L. Alcorn in 1871, then
governor of the state of Mississippi.
Hiram R. Revels resigned his seat in the United States Senate to become Alcorn's first president.
The state legislature provided $50,000 in cash for ten successive years for the establishment and
overall operations of the college. The state also granted Alcorn three-fifths of the proceeds
earned from the sale of thirty thousand acres of land scrip for agricultural colleges. The land
was sold for $188,928 with Alcorn receiving a share of $113,400. This money was to be used solely
for the agricultural and mechanical components of the college. From its beginning, Alcorn State
University was a land-grant college.
In 1878, the name Alcorn University was changed to Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College. The
university's original 225 acres of land have grown to become a 1,700 acre campus. The goals for
the college set by the Mississippi legislature clearly emphasized training rather than education.
The school, like other black schools during these years, was less a college than a trade school.
At first the school was exclusively for black males but in 1895 women were admitted. Today, women
outnumber men at the university eighteen hundred to twelve hundred.
In 1974 Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College became Alcorn State University. Governor
William L. Waller signed House Bill 298 granting university status to Alcorn and the other state
supported colleges. In truth, this law created a change of name rather than of purpose. Alcorn had
already become a more diversified university. It provides an undergraduate education that enables
students to continue their work in graduate and professional schools, engage in teaching, and enter
other professions. It also provides graduate education to equip students for further training in
specialized fields while they contribute to the advancement of knowledge through scholarly research
and inquiry.
Alcorn began with eight faculty members in 1871. Today there are more than five hundred members of
the faculty and staff. The student body has grown from 179 mostly local male students to more than
3,000 students from all over the world.
While early graduates of Alcorn had limited horizons, more recent alumni are successful doctors,
lawyers, dentists, teachers, principals, administrators, managers, and entrepreneurs. Alcorn has
had fifteen presidents with Dr. Clinton Bristow,Jr. becoming the sixteenth president in 1995. Of
these, Dr. Walter Washington, who assumed the presidency in 1969, was the longest-tenured president
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