Do you know the specific career path you want to pursue? These programs provide the necessary grounding in a specific field and prepare you to apply to professional schools upon completing your bachelor’s degrees.
Combine a pre-engineering path with an applied math, chemistry, geophysics or biochemistry major. We partner with the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University, the University of Mississippi and Columbia University.
Pre-health tracks include dentistry, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy and veterinary medicine. Millsaps has cooperative agreements for automatic acceptance with schools across the region.
Pre-law at Millsaps gives you an edge. Law schools prize the ability to think, critically analyze information and communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. Every major at Millsaps ensures you will develop these skills.
Our pre-ministerial program is distinguished by a core curriculum infused with a spirit of philosophical and religious inquiry. We have produced more United Methodist bishops than any other college or university in the country.
Design a major to best fit your personality, career goals and specific educational needs. Previous self-designed majors include international health and economics, global language studies and environmental studies.
Director of Pre-Health,
Chair — Department of Public Health,
Chair — Department of Physics,
Associate Professor of Chemistry
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Instructor of Biology
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Associate Professor of Classics
Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities
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You don’t have to know exactly what you want to do, but I feel like Millsaps is a place where you can figure it out.
We use it as a research tool and to teach students how to navigate the stock market.
Millsaps offers a renewable undergraduate scholarship covering at least 50% of tuition to JPS scholars who meet the college’s standard admissions requirements.
Congratulations to our Spring 2026 President’s and Dean’s List Scholars!!
