Welcome to the Office of Academic Affairs
The University of Mississippi Medical Center supports six health professions schools on its main campus in Jackson and successfully graduates roughly 1000 health care professionals each year, many of whom choose to stay and practice in the state.
The Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs oversees the academic enterprise of UMMC. To support our academic mission, each member of our team plays an essential role in our continuing success as we work to identify and promote best practices in health care education, including the following:
- Academic planning and strategy
- Academic policies and procedures
- Continuing health professions education
- Faculty development and success
- Institutional accreditation
- Quality improvement and innovation in education
- Resources through the Rowland Medical Library
- Student services and success
Our goals are to provide quality education to our students and trainees and to promote lifelong learning to our alumni, faculty, and staff.
Thank you for visiting our webpage, and please feel free to browse through our many programs.
Six Schools. One UMMC.
‘Truly life-changing’: Bedford Falls Foundation – DAF’s $2M grant opens door to UMMC School of Nursing for students in need
Monday, August 18, 2025
Over the next three years, the grant will create 167 full scholarships for accelerated and traditional BSN students in Jackson and Oxford. The funding will increase the number of nurses while eliminating the cost of nursing education for scholarship recipients. Read More
Photos: Students get a touch of class as school year begins
Monday, August 18, 2025
During the first weeks of August, students in the various campus schools were welcomed back – or for the first time – to the Medical Center. First-year students in particular enjoyed such activities as Family Day, tours and other back-to-school events – entertaining and informative preludes to the first day of classes. Read More
Latest Articles
New medical students put on the coat with a ‘kind of deep magic’
Published on Monday, August 11, 2025
That’s My Job: Admissions Counselors
Published on Monday, July 28, 2025
Ceremony celebrates physicians whose work ‘shines a light everywhere’
Published on Monday, July 28, 2025
Aru family endowment will support future UMMC medical students
Published on Monday, July 21, 2025
Ribbon cut on renovations at UMMC School of Nursing in Oxford
Published on Monday, July 14, 2025
Photos: New School of Nursing reaches pinnacle
Published on Monday, July 14, 2025
MD-PhD program grows in numbers, but also in potential and staying power
Published on Monday, July 14, 2025
Faculty members awarded honor named for medical school legend
Published on Monday, June 30, 2025
SGSHS Withdrawal Grade with Refund Deadline
Monday, September 8
SGSHS Last Day to Apply for Program Completion
Monday, September 8
SHRP Last Day to Submit an Application for December 2025 Program Completion
Monday, September 8
SHRP Last Day to Register/Add (OTD and DPT)
Monday, September 8
SHRP Last Day to Withdraw (DPT and OTD)
Monday, September 8
SON Fall Completion Application Deadline
Monday, September 8
SOPH Last Day to Register or Add a Course for Fall
Monday, September 8
SOPH Last Day to Withdraw from School or a Course Without Receiving a Withdrawal "W" Grade and to Receive a Tuition Refund
Monday, September 8