The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public (state university (U.S.)), coeducational (co-education) research university located in Oxford (Oxford, Mississippi), Mississippi. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford, four branch campuses located in Booneville (Booneville, Mississippi), Grenada (Grenada, Mississippi), Tupelo (Tupelo, Mississippi), and Southaven (Southaven, Mississippi) as well as the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson (Jackson, Mississippi). It also operates the University of Mississippi Field Station in Abbeville (Abbeville, Mississippi). Additionally, it is both a sea-grant and space-grant (Space grant colleges) institute. Sixty-nine percent of undergraduates are from Mississippi, and nineteen percent of all students are minorities. International students come from sixty-six nations.