Student stats

Main campus, fall 1993

• Total enrollment: 13,651.
• Mean age of students: 23.2 years.
• Mean composite ACT score of entering freshmen: 22.45, the highest among state supported institutions of higher learning. Second highest is the University of Mississippi, with 22.42.
• Of the 566 entering freshmen enrolled in state supported institutions of higher learning who scored 28 or above on the ACT, 251 (44.3 percent) attend Mississippi State.
• Undergraduates make up 82.5 percent of the student body.
• 67 percent of students fall between the ages of 17 and 22.
• The highest undergraduate program enrollment is in electrical engineering with 526 students, followed by elementary education with 496 students. The largest graduate program is counselor education with 130 students, followed by electrical engineering with 86.
• Majors in the College of Arts and Sciences accounted for 29.4 percent of all students; College of Engineering, 18.6 percent; College of Business and Industry, 17.3 percent; College of Education, 15.2 percent; College of Agriculture and Home Economics, 10.4 percent; School of Forest Resources, 3.6 percent; School of Architecture, 1.9 percent; College of Veterinary Medicine, 1.5 percent; and unclassified, 2.1 percent.