In-State Tuition in Mississippi: Residency Rules and Out-of-State Rates (Community College, 2026)

Verified 2026-08-072025–26 rates

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To get in-state tuition in Mississippi you need 12 months of Mississippi domicile before the term begins (Miss. Code Ann. § 37-103-13). In-state community college tuition is $3,800 a year at Mississippi Community College Board institutions, against $6,900 for non-residents. Mississippi belongs to no regional tuition compact at this level.

You would pay: $3,800/yr
Resident pays: $3,800/yr
Non-resident rate: $6,900/yr
Residency worth over 2 yrs: $6,200

Tuition and mandatory fees only, compiled from published rates and rounded. Excludes housing, books and course differentials. Eligibility is decided by the institution, not by this page.

Coming to Mississippi from a specific state?Pick your home state and the checker returns your exact route and the dollar difference.

For community college students, Mississippi prices residency at $3,100 a year — $3,800 against $6,900 at Mississippi Community College Board institutions. Mississippi does not belong to any of the four regional tuition compacts, so an out-of-state student has no exchange-program route into the in-state rate.

Mississippi classifies a student as a resident after 12 months of domicile. Physical presence in Mississippi for at least 12 months before the term begins, combined with objective evidence that you intend to make Mississippi your permanent home rather than living there to attend college. Classification is decided by the institution you enroll at, and a financially dependent student is assigned the parents' domicile.

This page covers all 50 origin states. Direction matters: what a Mississippi resident pays elsewhere is a different question from what an arriving student pays here, and the two are rarely symmetric.

What Mississippi charges, and who pays less

Routes into Mississippi at Mississippi Community College Board institutions, community college level — 2025–26 rates
Route	What it gives you	Per year	Saving	Guaranteed?
Mississippi residency	You pay the published resident rate once you meet the state's residency test.	$3,800	$3,100	Yes, if eligible

Mississippi residency requirements

Residency for tuition purposes in Mississippi, verified 2026-08-07
Durational requirement	12 months of domicile before the term begins
Domicile test	Physical presence in Mississippi for at least 12 months before the term begins, combined with objective evidence that you intend to make Mississippi your permanent home rather than living there to attend college.
Dependent students	A financially dependent student is assigned the parents' domicile. If your parents are not Mississippi residents, you are not one either, regardless of where you live.
Independent students	A financially independent adult can establish domicile on their own record.
Named exceptions	Active-duty military stationed in Mississippi and their dependents
Authority	Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning ↗(Miss. Code Ann. § 37-103-13)

Step by step

Confirm you meet the Mississippi domicile test: Physical presence in Mississippi for at least 12 months before the term begins, combined with objective evidence that you intend to make Mississippi your permanent home rather than living there to attend college.
Gather the documents the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning asks for — a driver's license, voter registration, vehicle registration and a 12-month record of physical presence are the usual set.
File the residency classification form with the campus registrar before the term's deadline; classification is decided by the institution, not by the state.
If you are financially dependent, check whose domicile counts — Mississippi assigns a dependent student the parents' domicile, so the parents must qualify.

Official links

Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning ↗Mississippi Community College Board institutions tuition ↗Mississippi residency ↗

Coming to Mississippi from another state

Direction matters. These cover the exact move into Mississippi at community college level:

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All 50 origin states

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Leaving Mississippi to study elsewhere

What a Mississippi resident pays in each of the other 50 states:

Mississippi → Alabama Mississippi → Alaska Mississippi → Arizona Mississippi → Arkansas Mississippi → California Mississippi → Colorado Mississippi → Connecticut Mississippi → Delaware Mississippi → District of Columbia Mississippi → Florida Mississippi → Georgia Mississippi → Hawaii Mississippi → Idaho Mississippi → Illinois Mississippi → Indiana Mississippi → Iowa

All 50 destination states

Mississippi → Kansas Mississippi → Kentucky Mississippi → Louisiana Mississippi → Maine Mississippi → Maryland Mississippi → Massachusetts Mississippi → Michigan Mississippi → Minnesota Mississippi → Missouri Mississippi → Montana Mississippi → Nebraska Mississippi → Nevada Mississippi → New Hampshire Mississippi → New Jersey Mississippi → New Mexico Mississippi → New York Mississippi → North Carolina Mississippi → North Dakota Mississippi → Ohio Mississippi → Oklahoma Mississippi → Oregon Mississippi → Pennsylvania Mississippi → Rhode Island Mississippi → South Carolina Mississippi → South Dakota Mississippi → Tennessee Mississippi → Texas Mississippi → Utah Mississippi → Vermont Mississippi → Virginia Mississippi → Washington Mississippi → West Virginia Mississippi → Wisconsin Mississippi → Wyoming

Mississippi at other levels

Mississippi — Undergraduate Mississippi — Graduate

Asked and answered

›What are the residency requirements for in-state tuition in Mississippi?

Physical presence in Mississippi for at least 12 months before the term begins, combined with objective evidence that you intend to make Mississippi your permanent home rather than living there to attend college. The durational requirement is 12 months, administered by the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning under Miss. Code Ann. § 37-103-13. Classification is made by the institution you enroll at, not centrally.

›How much is out-of-state tuition in Mississippi?

$6,900 a year in tuition and mandatory fees at Mississippi Community College Board institutions for 2025–26, against $3,800 for a resident — a gap of $3,100. Rates differ by campus and by college within a campus.

›Which tuition exchange programs does Mississippi belong to?

None at community college level. Mississippi is not a member of any of the four regional tuition compacts for this level of study, so out-of-state students have no exchange-program route to a reduced rate.

›Can I get in-state tuition in Mississippi after one year of living there?

12 months of domicile is the requirement, but time alone is not enough. You have to show you moved to live in Mississippi rather than to attend college there — driver's license, vehicle registration, voter registration, employment and state tax filing are the evidence campuses ask for. A financially dependent student is assigned the parents' domicile regardless.

Sources

Every eligibility rule on this page is checked against the operating compact commission or the state's own residency authority. Last verified 2026-08-07.

Tuition figures on this page are compiled 2025–26 published rates (basis: published compiled), rounded to the nearest $100 and refreshed each June. Eligibility rules are checked against the cited compact commission or residency authority.

Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning — residency for tuition purposes ↗Accessed 2026-08-07
University of Mississippi — tuition and fees ↗Accessed 2026-08-07
Mississippi Community College Board institutions — tuition and fees ↗Accessed 2026-08-07
University of Mississippi Graduate School — tuition and fees ↗Accessed 2026-08-07

How this page was made

Compiled and checked by Billy Reiner, editor of In-State Check. Last verified 2026-08-07.

Compiled from published rate pages: The in-state and non-resident figures are tuition and mandatory fees for one full-time year, read from Mississippi Community College Board institutions’s own 2025–26 rate page and rounded to the nearest $100. Housing, books, travel and course-specific differentials are not included in them.
Checked against the administering body: Compact membership at this level was checked against the commission that runs the program (WICHE, MHEC, SREB and NEBHE). The residency test — the durational requirement, the domicile evidence and the dependent-student rule — was checked against Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, Miss. Code Ann. § 37-103-13. Nothing here is taken from another comparison site.

Not advice. In-State Check is independent of every college, compact and state agency named here. Residency classification and award decisions are made by the institution you apply to. Found an error? Send the page URL and the source that contradicts it to [email protected], and the page is corrected and re-dated. Full methodology.