Mississippi State University is also known as The Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. It is located in Oktibbeha County. Since the school is in between two cities, the actual location of the school and all that the campus involves is called Mississippi State, Mississippi, but some people just say Starkville, Mississippi. There are also campuses located in Meridian, Biloxi, and Vicksburg. The motto is "Learning, Service, Research." Currently the President of the University if Dr. Mark E. Keenum and the school employs nearly 4,750 staff members. The school's athletic teams are called the bulldogs and their uniforms are in the school's colors of maroon and white. The Bulldogs play in the Southeastern Conference and are in Division one of the NCAA. The school enrolled around 22,000 students in the fall of 2011.

As mentioned before, Mississippi State was started as The Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science in 1878. The first students attended classes in 1880. By 1932, the state Legislature decided that the school should be named Mississippi State College but twenty-six years later changed the name to Mississippi State University.

At Mississippi, Students can achieve Baccalaureate Degrees, Master's Degrees, Specialist Degrees, and Doctoral Degrees. The Schools and Colleges that students can attend are: the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Forest Resources, the College of architecture Art and Design, the Shackouls Honors College, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, the College of Business, the James Worth Bagley College of engineering, the Richard C. Adkerson School of Accountancy, and the College of Education. The campus nearly covers 4,200 acres and has 160 buildings. The 4,200 acres also includes farms, and Experiment Station, pastures, and woodlands for research. A famous area on campus is Drill Field. This "field" was the place where Corps of Cadets would do "drills" before the end of World War II. The largest building on the Drill Field is the Mitchell Memorial Library.

Currently there are sixteen residence halls on campus. The residence halls are: South Hall, Creswell Hall, Sessums Hall, Ruby Hall, Critz Hall, Evans Hall, Rice Hall, Griffis Hall, Oak Hall, Hathorn Hall, North Hall, Herbert Hall, McKee Hall, Hull Hall, Magnolia Hall, and Hurst Hall. All buildings are for Freshman and Upper class students and most are co-residential. Evans Hall and McKee Hall are for men only and Sessums Hall is for women only. Mississippi State Bulldogs, like a few other schools in the SEC had a building called "Old Main." Like the others, it was the first on campus and this particular "Old Main" was originally called the "Main Dormitory." It was said to be the largest college dorm in the United States of America and was built in 1880 and finally completed in 1922. "Old Main" was destroyed in a fire in 1959 and took the life of one student. Bricks from the original structure were dumped on the practice field for the band and also used in building the Chapel of Memories.

At Mississippi State, 20% of the students are affiliated with Greek Life. There are 20 fraternities and 9 sororities on campus, and there are other Greek National Pan-Hellenic Organizations as well. These groups work with charities, do volunteer work, and hold many social events each year. Some of the most popular Fraternities are Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Alpha Order, Sigma Nu, Kappa Sigma, and Sigma Chi. Some of the sororities at Mississippi State are: Chi Omega, which has been there the longest, Delta Gamma,. Delta Delta Delta, and Zeta Tau Alpha. Alpha Delta Pi is a very popular sorority in the SEC and will be recolonizing at Mississippi State University in 2013. And when you need a sorority dress for your next function, we are here to help!

Before they were known as Bulldogs, Mississippi athletes were also called the Aggies or the Maroons. The official live mascot is an English Bulldog, registered by the America Kennel Club, named Bully. The very first live bulldog was named Ptolemy and he was crowned the mascot in 1935. The nineteenth bulldog to take the mascot spot was Bully XIX, or Tonka. He was the very first bulldog to be university owned and trained from the small age of eight weeks. He passed away in 2011 but before that sired the current mascot. Since 2009, the latest Bully, Bully XX or "Champ," has been in place taking over his dad's spot.

Athletics at Mississippi State University are taken very seriously and many of the athletes go on to have careers in their particular sport. The Bulldogs compete in sixteen varsity sports. They have won fourteen Southeastern Conference championships and most of these are in baseball. Baseball at Mississippi State is the star sport unlike most school's in the SEC with football being the star. The Baseball Team, also known as the Diamond Dogs, have won ten SEC Conference championships and have gone to the College World Series eight times. The team plays their home games on Dudy Noble Field, Polk-DeMent Stadium. The football team also attracts a large crowd on game day at Davis Wade Stadium. Their most prized tradition is the fans bringing cow bells to the game to ring the bulldogs to a victory. After a thirty year ban on the cow bells, the ban has finally been lifted and as of 2010, fans may bring the bells into the game again... although the ban never really stopped them! Also at every Mississippi State Football gameday, the Famous Maroon Band plays "Hail State," the schools official fight song and battle cry! Tailgating before a game is a must. In all the SEC and ACC Schools, you are guaranteed to see girls wearing their "Sunday Best" to football games! Make sure you have yours on too by shopping SidelineSweetie.com for the latest in Mississippi State game day dresses and clothing! We have maroon dresses, white dresses, maroon and white printed dresses, and Maroon and white color blocked dresses! Find them at SidelineSweetie.com!