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Distinguished Alumni Gymnasium in the Owens Health, Wellness, and Human Location Resources Center. Over 60% of Tougaloo graduates enter professional Tougaloo is located in Madison County on the northern and graduate schools immediately after receipt of Library and Information Technology edge of Jackson, Mississippi. Hinds, Madison and Rankin their undergraduate degrees. Today, Tougaloo College Services Counties form the Metropolitan Jackson community of is the leading producer of African American health 425,000 residents. The Metro area offers commercial, Tougaloo professionals, including over 40% of the physicians, The Zenobia Coleman Library contains 104,172 medical, governmental and cultural opportunities and College psychologists, dentists, pharmacists and other health volumes and provides access to over 58 million provides a welcoming setting for the College and our care professionals practicing in Mississippi. It has external sources through the Interlibrary Loan Service students. produced more than one-third of Mississippi’s African and over 5,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archival American attorneys and educators, including teachers, materials. Tougaloo College is an Internet2 campus, Financial Assistance principals, school superintendents and college/ providing access to email, the Internet and standard faculty and administrators. software applications through wireless connectivity or Tougaloo College offers merit and need-based the campus fiber optic network. scholarships and participates in federal and state Campus and Facilities student aid programs. Over 90% of the students Athletics currently attending the College are eligible for and Tougaloo College’s historic campus, which is listed on receive some form of financial assistance. the National Register of Historic Places, sits on 500 Tougaloo College competes in the National Association acres of prime land. The campus features historic of Intercollegiate Athletics Division I and the Gulf Coast Tougaloo College Office of Institutional Advancement and modern facilities such as Woodworth Chapel, Athletic Conference, and fields intercollegiate athletic 500 West County Line Road Kincheloe Hall, the Blackmon Administration Building teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, Tougaloo, Mississippi Creating a Community and Holmes Hall. Four student residence facilities and tennis. 601-977-7871 house two-thirds of the student body. Recreational internet: www.tougaloo.edu of Change facilities include outdoor basketball courts, lighted email: [email protected] tennis courts, baseball and soccer fields, and the Kroger “Where History Meets the Future” INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE research projects, study abroad and explore career , computer science, music, international countries. The middle 50% of entering opportunities through internships and externships at , , physics education, political freshpersons score between 20 and 24 on the ACT Tougaloo College is an independent, residential, various organizations, helping to foster a vital campus science, psychology, religious studies, and sociology and almost 50% rank in the top quartile of their high co-educational, undergraduate liberal arts institution life. (emphasis in social available). The Associate of school graduating class. Almost 65% of the students of learning affiliated with the United Church of Arts degree is offered in early childhood education, reside on campus. Christ and the Disciples of Christ. Founded in 1869, Degrees and Programs of Study child development, hotel and hospitality management by the American Missionary Association, it is the only and religious studies. The College offers a pre-nursing Achievements private historically black institution of Tougaloo College offers the Bachelor of Arts, program in partnership with the School of Nursing at in the Greater Jackson, Mississippi community. , and Associate of Arts degrees. the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Tougaloo College ranks among the top 50 U.S. Tougaloo College is a community of engaged Twenty-nine majors are offered. In addition to institutions whose graduates earn Ph.D. degrees in learners, offering a nurturing living and learning these twenty-nine, five of the majors allow students Faculty science and engineering disciplines and among the top environment. Distinguished by its historic significance to add one or more special emphases. Majors 15 historically black colleges and in the as a social change agent in the state of Mississippi, the are offered in art, art education, biology, biology The College’s talented faculty members are dedicated graduation of females with undergraduate degrees in College is commonly referred to as the “Cradle of the education, chemistry, , child teachers and scholars who contribute to the production the physical sciences. The College has produced more Civil Rights Movement”. The content and character of development, computer science, economics (emphases of knowledge in their disciplines. Full-time faculty, graduates who completed their Ph.D. degrees through the academic curriculum entwines intellectual growth, in accounting and business administration available), over 70% of whom hold the Ph.D., Ed.D or terminal the UNCF-Mellon Doctoral Fellowship Program than character development and civic responsibility into elementary education, English, English education, degree appropriate to their field, teach the majority of any other institution in the nation. classroom preparation. health and , health and recreation classes. The classroom experience is characterized by Tougaloo College is listed as one of the Best Tougaloo College emphasizes the development of (emphases in community health and recreation for a student-faculty ratio of 15:1, ensuring personalized Colleges in the Southeast by The Princeton Review (2007 students as responsible citizens and leaders prepared to special populations available), history (emphasis in attention for students. edition) and the only Mississippi institution ranked effect change in a global economy. It provides extensive African American studies), history education, hotel among the top 20 liberal arts institutions in the nation opportunities for students to assume leadership and hospitality management, interdisciplinary career Students by Washington Monthly. Money magazine’s 2005 ranking opportunities, participate in student exchange oriented humanities (ICOHM), mass communication of the most affordable private institutions in the nation programs with collaborative partnering institutions (emphases in radio and television, journalism, public Tougaloo College has a student population averaging lists Tougaloo College as number 5. such as Brown University, collaborate with faculty on relations, and advertising available), mathematics, 970 students from twenty-two states and four