Job training is provided by Northeast Mississippi Community College (NEMCC), located in Booneville, Mississippi.  Booneville is 30 minutes drive time from Tishomingo County.  Job training is customized and is provided at no cost to business and industry as long as you are in Mississippi. 

 

 

Tishomingo County is conveniently located in the middle of a number of leading colleges, universities, and job training centers.   A few others located within a 30 minute to two hour drive include:

Tishomingo County Vocational Center (VoTech), Tishomingo, Mississippi

Itawamba Community College (ICC), Fulton & Tupelo, Mississippi, both with nationally  recognized job training programs customized to meet your needs at no cost to you

The University of Mississippi (UM), Oxford and Tupelo, Mississippi, with its National Center for Physical Acoustics, National Center for the Development of Natural Products, and National Center for Computational Hydro science and Engineering;

Mississippi University for Women (MUW), Columbus, Mississippi, one of the highest rated academic institutions in the USA;

Mississippi State University (MSU), Starkville, Mississippi, with its Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, National Research Center for Computational Field Simulation, High Voltage Laboratory, and one of the top industrial assessment centers in the USA;

University of North Alabama (UNA), Florence, Alabama

Northwest/Shoals Community College (SCC), Muscle Shoals, Alabama

University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH), Huntsville, Alabama

Jackson State Community College (JSCC), Jackson, Tennessee

The universities work through the Mississippi Technology Extension Partnership to insure that the most advanced technology and technology training are quickly transferred to business and industry.   Mississippi offers several university and community college centers for advanced manufacturing technology including the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS).   Mississippi universities and research centers possess one-fourth of the supercomputers in the USA and the state ranks third in the nation in computing capabilities.