Millsaps College is a private aesthetic sciences school situated in Jackson, in the U.S. condition of Mississippi. Established in 1890 and associated with the United Methodist Church, Millsaps is home to 985 understudies. One of 40 universities included in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives, it is one of just 21 private schools across the nation named a Best Buy in the 2013 Fiske Guide to Colleges.
The school was established in 1889–90 by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps, through the gift of the school's territory and $50,000. Dr. William Belton Murrah was the school's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, which with mergers, turned into the present day United Methodist Church, composed the school's initial raising support endeavors. Both men now have corridors named in their honor. Major Millsaps and his wife are buried in a tomb close to the focal point of grounds.
Regardless of its religious association, the educational modules is common. The composition concentrated central subjects requires every understudy to order a satisfactory arrangement of composed work before fruition of the sophomore year. Possibility for a college degree should likewise pass oral and composed exhaustive exams in their real field of study. These exams last up to three hours, and may cover any required or elective course offered by the real division. Unsatisfactory execution on extensive exams will keep an applicant from getting a degree, regardless of the possibility that all course work has been finished. "Comps" are typically connected with graduate degree necessities, so their incorporation at the undergrad level is a wellspring of pride (and conceivably weight) for Millsaps understudi
