Southwest Mississippi Community College (SMCC)

Southwest Mississippi Community College (SMCC), located just northeast of Summit, MS, began in 1918 as Pike County Agricultural High School, and included a dairy, beef, and row crop farm.  The agricultural high school offered college work for the first time in 1929, and in 1932 it became a two-year junior college.  1988, the name changed from Southwest Mississippi Junior College to Southwest Mississippi Community College, to reflect the broadened mission and scope of its offerings.

Still located on the original site of the old Godbold's Mineral Wells, the sixty-acre campus includes twenty-eight buildings, a football stadium, a large auditorium, a new two-story student union, and a central lake with walks, bridges, and paths connecting the buildings.  There are about 855 acres on the site that are now used as a tree farm.

A few of the clubs and organizations SMCC offers are scholars bowl, campus ministries, choir, dance group, marching and stage band, and student nurses organization (SMCC has a great reputation for its nursing program).

In addition, the college has a Workforce Development Center, which serves Pike, Amite, Walthall, and Wilkinson Counties, and offers a variety of services regarding careers, workforce, training, and education. 

The college also is part of the Mississippi Virtual Community College, a distance-learning consortium of fourteen of Mississippi's community colleges.

For more information, please visit the school's website at http://www.smcc.cc.ms.us/ .