The University of Mississippi Graduate School

A new partnership between the Graduate School and the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU) encourages promising undergraduate students from FAMU to pursue graduate education at The University of Mississippi. Joining other universities in the Graduate Feeder Scholars Program, UM's Graduate School hopes to attract many promising students from FAMU over the coming years.

Jonathan Hutchins, a doctoral student in history, is UM's first graduate recruit from the feeder program. After earning undergraduate and master's degrees from FAMU, Jonathan decided to pursue the Ph.D. in history at UM.

"My first year here has been wonderful. I've met a lot of open-minded people, had great professors-overall, it's been a very good experience," said Hutchins. "And I'd recommend this graduate school to students coming from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to other minority students, and to all students in general."