According to AAMC (the MCAT test maker), there are 4 MCAT test centers in Mississippi. Most testing centers are located inside a college or university. You can select a testing location that is nearest to you. Please note that you are able to choose a test center when registering for the MCAT.
Hattiesburg – Ellisville
72 Technology Boulevard
Ellisville, MS 39437
Prometric Test Center
1080 River Oaks Drive
Suite B-203
Flowood, MS 39232
ETS – MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIV
180 Magruder St
Mail Stop #9747
Mississippi State University
MISSISSIPPI STATE, MS 39762
Tupelo – Spicer Drive
618 SPICER DRIVE
SUITE A
TUPELO, MS 38804
Economy
Fertile soils and a subtropical, humid climate enable productive agriculture. In addition to cotton cultivation, wheat, rice, maize and soybean cultivation have gained in importance, as have cattle and poultry farming. Income from industry has only recently overtaken that of agriculture. The timber industry, cellulose and paper production, plywood production and the food industry, but also the chemical industry, play an important role. Inshore fishing supplies mainly oysters and shrimp. Oil is produced in the south, and natural gas at Jackson too. Below average per capita income of the population.
Numerous antebellum houses (architecture of the big landowners of the southern states in the approx. 30 years before the civil war; mainly Greek Revival or Federal Style), especially in Natchez and Biloxi, and former plantations attract tourists, casinos in Biloxi. Space Flight Center at Bay St. Louis.
Mississippi is one of the most economically underdeveloped American states, which is primarily due to historical reasons. For a long period, Mississippi was focused primarily on cotton production. In the middle of the 19th century, the export of cotton grown by slaves provided the Magnolia State with the fifth place in the list of the richest states in the United States. The fall in cotton prices in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the lag in the development of infrastructure and education, global changes in the American economy of the last century (including the mass migration of black Americans from the US South to large industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest), numerous natural disasters and other factors have led to the fact that Mississippi now occupies the last place in such a list. Now the state’s industrial enterprises assemble cars and produce parts for them; process food; produce pulp, lumber and wood products. The state has well-developed animal husbandry (mainly dairy), poultry farming (Mississippi is one of the leading producers of broiler chickens in the United States), and fish farming. Along with traditional cotton, soybeans, sweet potatoes and other crops are grown in the fields. Gambling is allowed in some counties in Mississippi, which is one of the factors that attract tourists to the state.
History
Mississippi, originally inhabited by the Indian tribes of the Choctaw, Chikasaw and Natchez, became part of the Spaniards under H. de Soto in 1540–41explored. Since 1699 (inter alia in the area of today’s Biloxi) French settled the area belonging to the Louisiana colony. The Mississippi, which came under British rule in 1763, fell to the USA in 1783, with the exception of the southern part, which had been occupied by Spaniards since 1779, which was officially ceded to the USA in 1795 (Treaty of San Lorenzo), but was in fact in Spanish hands until 1798. Mississippi was organized as a territory in 1798, expanded to the Tennessee border in 1804 and the Gulf of Mexico in 1812, and (after Alabama was ceded) on December 10, 1817, it became the 20th state to join the Union. As the main cotton producer of the “deep south” one of the most intransigent southern states, Mississippi had under the fighting of the Civil War (1861-65, especially the Vicksburg campaign in 1863) and suffered heavily from the subsequent “Reconstruction”. Re-accepted into the Union in 1870, it remained a state marked by social and racial tensions, with a very low average income and a high proportion of the black population.