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Mississippi Valley State University

Itta Bena, Mississippi · Public · Four-year · Founded 1946

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
14000 Highway 82 West, Itta Bena, MS 38941-1400
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
176044
OPE id
00242400
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Not placed on the map: the Census Bureau returned no match. Held on 2026-09-14 until a person resolves the address; no other geocoder was consulted.

No enrollment figure is published on this page. The Ledger prints one only with a dated NCES citation, and none is attached to this record.

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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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