The University is known as Ole Miss and is an open research college in Oxford, Mississippi. Counting the College of Mississippi Restorative Center in Jackson, it is the state's biggest college by enlistment and is the state's leader college. The college was contracted by the Mississippi Lawmaking body on February 24, 1844, and after four years conceded its first enlistment of 80 understudies. Overall its grounds, the college involves somewhere in the range of 23,258 understudies. Apart from the principle grounds in Oxford and the school of medicine in Jackson, the college additionally has grounds in Tupelo, Booneville, Grenada, and Southaven, just as a certify online secondary school. Around 55 percent of its students and 60 percent, by and large, originate from Mississippi, and 23 percent are minorities; global understudies separately speak to 90 unique countries Notable Alumni include William Faulkner who is a Nobel Prize Winner, John Grishan who is the best selling author of legal thriller genre, US State Senators Roer Wicker, Trent Lott, and Thad Cochran, Archie Manning who is a NFL Quarterback, and Mahesh Bhupathi who is a 4 time Grand Slam Winner.