Institution of Higher Learning	mi	km
University of Mississippi Medical Center	57	92
Belhaven College	58	93
Millsaps College	58	93
Tougaloo College	62	100
Jackson State University	65	105
Mississippi College	68	109
Mississippi State University	72	116
Mississippi Valley State University	94	151
Mississippi University for Women	96	155
Alcorn University	127	204
Delta State University	128	206
University of Mississippi	140	225
University of Southern Mississippi	156	251
William Carey College	160	258
Blue Mountain College	161	259
Rust College	170	274

 

 

 

The largest state university near Leake County is Mississippi State University. Mississippi State University is a public, land-grant, doctoral, research university classified as Doctoral/Research-Extensive by the Carnegie Foundation. Its mission is to provide access and opportunity to students from all sectors of the state's diverse population and to offer excellent and extensive programs in instruction, research, and outreach.

 

Enhancing its historic strengths in agriculture, natural resources, science, and engineering, Mississippi State entered the twenty-first century with additional strengths in a comprehensive range of graduate and undergraduate programs. These include architecture, the arts, business, education, the humanities, the social and behavioral sciences, and veterinary medicine. The Meridian Campus focuses on meeting the needs of place-bound students and working adults through upper division and graduate programs in education, business, liberal arts, and social work.

 

The State of Mississippi, while recruiting Nissan to build a manufacturing facility in central Mississippi, committed to the establishment and continued operation of the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State University (MSU) with a branch of CAVS to be located near the Nissan plant. The CAVS Research facility located at MSU and the CAVS Extension facility located at Canton opened in December 2003.

 

CAVS' mission is to research and develop design and manufacturing means and methods for producing superior quality vehicles with advanced features and functions at reduced costs and shorter product development times and exploiting the underlying technologies for broader industrial use. The mission also includes engineering extension, education and workforce training outreach for industry.

 

Research - Reducing product development time involves both the development of the product and the manufacturing start-up. This first "compelling issue" presents an opportunity to exploit existing MSU computational engineering expertise. To address these needs, CAVS is organized into three major research areas.