Percentage Distribution of Anticipated Educational Fields
Reported by Entering Freshmen
The University Of Mississippi
Fall Semester 1987–Fall Semester 2000
| Educational Fields | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | |
| Agriculture, Forestry, etc. | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | |||
| Architecture | 3% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 3% | |||
| Sciences (Biological & Physical) | 3% | 3% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 2% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 4% | |||
| Business and Management | 26% | 29% | 27% | 24% | 24% | 21% | 19% | 19% | 17% | 17% | 16% | 17% | |||
| Communications | 6% | 6% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 6% | 4% | |||
| Computer and Information Science | 2% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 2% | |||
| Education | 3% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 6% | 5% | 4% | |||
| Engineering | 8% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 8% | 7% | 8% | 6% | 9% | 8% | 8% | |||
| Fine and Applied Arts | 3% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 4% | |||
| Foreign Languages | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | |||
| Health Professions | 19% | 19% | 18% | 20% | 21% | 21% | 26% | 23% | 27% | 26% | 26% | 26% | |||
| Home Economics | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% | |||
| Letters (Humanities) | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | |||
| Mathematics | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | |||
| Community Service | 1% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 2% | |||
| Social Sciences | 13% | 14% | 17% | 17% | 16% | 16% | 14% | 14% | 14% | 11% | 13% | 12% | |||
| General Studies | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | |||
| Undecided | 8% | 8% | 7% | 7% | 8% | 9% | 9% | 12% | 11% | 10% | 12% | 11% | |||