Ole Miss tuition and cost, 2026–27
Out-of-state tuition at the University of Mississippi is $31,068 a year, which includes the nonresident fee. Two required fees add $160: a capital improvements fee of $100 and a student activity fee of $60. The university's estimated cost of attendance for a full-time undergraduate living in campus housing adds housing ($8,030), food ($5,580), books and supplies ($1,200), personal expenses ($3,500), and transportation ($3,400), for a total of $52,938 a year. These are the university's current published figures, which it describes as estimates.
Tuition at the University of Mississippi for Mississippi residents is $10,278 a year. Two required fees add $160: a capital improvements fee of $100 and a student activity fee of $60. The university's estimated cost of attendance for a full-time undergraduate living in campus housing adds housing ($8,030), food ($5,580), books and supplies ($1,200), personal expenses ($3,500), and transportation ($3,400), for a total of $32,148 a year. These are the university's current published figures, which it describes as estimates.
The sticker price is Ole Miss's. What's left is yours.
Blue is what the university publishes: the 2026–27 cost of attendance times four, with no change in prices assumed. Green is what a family can take off it: the merit tier the university publishes for their student, and what they plan to pay. What's left is the number to decide on.
Every line the university publishes.
Out-of-state tuition is $31,068 a year. Two required fees add $160. The rest is the university's estimate for living on campus. Nothing here is ours.
Line items, campus housing
| Tuition | $10,278$31,068 |
| Capital improvements fee | $100 |
| Student activity fee | $60 |
| Housing (campus housing) | $8,030 |
| Food | $5,580 |
| Books and supplies | $1,200 |
| Personal | $3,500 |
| Transportation | $3,400 |
| Cost of attendance, campus housing | $32,148$52,938 |
Source: University of Mississippi, cost of attendance, read September 18, 2026. The university describes these figures as estimates.
Three published living plans.
Only the housing line changes between the university's three published totals. The calculator uses campus housing unless you change it.
Merit scholarships for out-of-state students
The University of Mississippi publishes automatic Academic Merit Scholarships for nonresident freshmen, set by high school GPA and ACT or SAT score, ranging from $3,000 a year to the full nonresident fee at the top tier. The award is automatic on admission, renewable for up to four years if the university's conditions are met, and pays toward the nonresident fee specifically. The Ole Miss merit scholarships page shows the published chart, what each tier is worth over four years, and what the next tier would change. Need-based aid depends on your FAFSA and is not published as a schedule. Which of these applies to your student, and how much of the four-year figure it changes, is what the calculator below works out. Source: University of Mississippi: Nonresident freshman Academic Merit Scholarships, 2026-27.
What changes the number for a Mississippi family
The nonresident Academic Merit Scholarship applies to the nonresident fee, which Mississippi residents do not pay. Resident students are considered for the university's other institutional scholarships and for need-based aid based on the FAFSA, and neither is published as a fixed schedule by GPA and test score. What you would actually pay depends on those awards and on what your family can contribute each year.
See what Ole Miss would actually cost your family
The published figures above are the same for every family. Your number is not. It depends on residency, the scholarships and aid your student receives, what your family can pay each year, and how much is left to cover.
If some of it would be borrowed, the cost is not only the four years. It is what the payments would mean every month for years after graduation.
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About these numbers
The tuition, fees, housing, food, books and supplies, personal, and transportation figures on this page are the University of Mississippi's published cost of attendance for a full-time undergraduate, as posted on the university's cost of attendance page. We read them on September 18, 2026. The university describes these figures as estimates and prints no academic-year label beside them. We label them 2026-27 because the resident tuition line ($10,278) matches the fiscal year 2027 rate the Mississippi IHL Board of Trustees approved in April 2026 and differs from the prior year's rate; the nonresident tuition and living-cost lines come from the same page. Check current figures with the university before relying on them.
The four-year figures are our arithmetic: the published annual cost of attendance multiplied by four, with no change in prices assumed and no aid subtracted. They are not university figures and not a projection.
The scholarship paragraph above summarizes the university's own published page for nonresident Academic Merit Scholarships for 2026-27 freshmen. It does not estimate any award for a specific student.
The calculator turns what is left after aid and your contribution into a monthly payment using one framework for every college, twenty years at 6%, so you can compare colleges on the same basis. It is a comparison framework, not a loan offer.
Figures are for informational purposes only and are not financial advice. Confirm final costs with the University of Mississippi Office of Financial Aid and your own aid offer.