The University of Southern Mississippi, known informally as Southern Miss, is a public research university located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

It is situated 70 miles (110 km) north of Gulfport, Mississippi and 105 miles (169 km) northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana.

The university has a particularly extensive study-abroad program through its Center for International Education, and is consistently ranked as one of the top universities in the nation for the number of students studying abroad each year.

University rankings

National:
Forbes 522
U.S. News & World Report 220
Washington Monthly 192

By 2009, U.S. News & World Report again ranked the university as in the upper portion of "Tier 3."
In the 2011 U.S. News & World Report College ranking, USM was in the "Tier 2". In 2016, USM was ranked by U.S. News & World Report 125th in national public universities and 220th in national universities.

These rankings attempt to make a more holistic assessment of an institution's value; USM ranked 98th out of 245 doctoral institutions.

As of 2016, Washington Monthly ranked USM 165th in research specifically and 192nd in national universities overall.

Academic affiliation
AASCU
APLU
SURA
ORAU

Endowment $116.8 Million

President Rodney D. Bennett
Provost Steven Moser
Students 14,554 (Fall 2016)

Address:

University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Dr, Hattiesburg,
MS 39406, USA