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MVSU(Mississippi Valley State University)

School colors: Forest green, white, and red

Mvsuricetottenstadiumvalleybanners, Mississippi Valley State University
Chillin662, 2022-03-26, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Itta Bena, Mississippi · Founded 1946

Public · Four-year · ~2,200 students

www.mvsu.edu · official site

Founding

The Mississippi Legislature enacted legislation in 1946 authorizing Mississippi Vocational College, the institution that became Mississippi Valley State University. The college opened in the summer of 1950 with 205 in-service teachers enrolled.

Source: History, Mississippi Valley State University, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

Motto
Live for ServiceSource, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
14000 Highway 82 West, Itta Bena, MS 38941-1400
Control
Public
Students
~2,200 students
Directory id
176044
OPE id
00242400
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
14000 Highway 82 West, Itta Bena, MS. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes fromCampus location from IPEDS 2024-25This campus location comes from the federal IPEDS 2024-25 record, used as published, so the pin on the map is the campus.IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 collection, file dated 2025-09-21, retrieved 2026-09-14: coordinate 33.514142, -90.341274 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned No Match for the address on file, which no longer decides placement.

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Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 176044. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. History, Mississippi Valley State University. https://www.mvsu.edu/history. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. About, Mississippi Valley State University. https://www.mvsu.edu/about. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 2,196 total, Fall 2023 (2,005 undergraduate, 191 graduate). IPEDS Fall Enrollment 2023, derived variables (DRVEF2023). https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/DRVEF2023.zip. File dated 2024-09-30, read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Forest green, white, and red. Values as stated. Mississippi Valley State University, Wikipedia (revision 1374298664). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Chillin662, 2022-03-26, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mvsuricetottenstadiumvalleybanners.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  8. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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