Facts and Figures - Biology

Advantages:
There are several advantages for researching at Millsaps College.

• There is a reputation for promoting undergraduate research and sending well-qualified science students into the best of the nation's graduate research schools and medical professional programs.

• Highly qualified faculty conducting research with undergraduates.

• Facilities and equipment that are unequaled on most undergraduate college campuses.

• Special projects and grants that provide scholarships, research opportunities and summer stipends for scientific research.

• Summer Research Institute for select high school students and teachers, co-sponsored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Millsaps.

The Millsaps Reputation:
Normally 70 to 75 percent of Millsaps graduates with B.S. degrees in biology and chemistry enroll in graduate or professional school upon completion of their baccalaureate studies. The percentage increases to more than 80 percent within two years of graduation.

For the past 10 years, 80 percent of the Millsaps students applying to medical school have been accepted. Currently students are enrolled at Johns Hopkins, Emory, Vanderbilt, Tulane, University of Virginia, University of Tennessee, University of Alabama and University of Mississippi medical schools.

As with all Millsaps graduates, those receiving a degree in the sciences must complete both and oral and written comprehensive examination. On test where there is a national norm, Millsaps graduates have traditionally performed in the upper one-third of all science graduates.

Millsaps was chosen as one of the first of a select group of colleges to receive a major $600,000 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.