Mississippi · high school · 2026-2027 school year
Mississippi homeschool graduation requirements, diploma, and transcript
Trellis has no step-by-step law page for Mississippi yet. The state's own statute and agency sources at the end of this page are the primary references.
Mississippi issues no diplomas or transcripts to home-schooled students and sets no required subjects or curriculum (Miss. Code § 37-13-91). The parent creates the diploma and transcript; only an annual enrollment certificate is filed.
The short version
- Who sets the requirement: the state's graduation rules bind public schools, not homeschools. The parent issues the diploma.
- The reference standard: the public-school minimum is 24 credits, and that table is the common starting point a transcript is read against; colleges set their own expectations on top of it, below.
- What colleges actually look for: the universities in the table below publish their own course expectations.
- What a transcript must show: courses by year, credits, and grades, kept by the parent, with the same subject headings the reference table uses.
- Across states: compare what 51 flagship universities ask.
The public-school credit table, for reference
Mississippi's public-school diploma requires 24 credits. A homeschool is not held to it. It is shown as the reference a transcript is commonly read against. A recruited athlete also registers with the NCAA Eligibility Center, which grades home-school core courses against its own worksheet, separate from this table.
| Subject | Credits | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4 | Traditional diploma, public-school reference only. |
| Math | 4 | |
| Science | 3 | |
| Social studies | 3.5 | US History; World History; Government; Economics. |
| Foreign language | 0 | Not required for the Traditional diploma; required for the Academic/Distinguished Academic endorsements. |
| PE and health | 1 | 0.5 health, 0.5 physical education. |
| Arts | 1 | |
| Electives | 5.5 | |
| Other | 2 | 1 credit technology/computer science; 1 credit college and career readiness. |
Assessments in the public-school rules: State accountability testing exists for public schools; none required for a homeschool-issued diploma.
What Mississippi colleges ask a homeschooled applicant for
Mississippi's public universities all use one shared statewide College Preparatory Curriculum (the Institutions of Higher Learning's CPC, IHL CPC), so a single transcript plan works for any in-state public university. Sources vary slightly on the CPC unit counts.
Years of each subject. 0 means the university lists no requirement in that subject; a dash means it publishes no figure for it.
flagship University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
| Subject | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4 | – |
| Math | 3 | 4 |
| Science | 3 | – |
| Social studies | 3 | – |
| Foreign language | – | – |
| Arts | – | – |
2 advanced electives, one of them foreign language or world geography (foreign language, world geography, a fourth year of lab science or of mathematics), and one-half unit of computer applications; 15.5 Carnegie units in all
Ole Miss's catalog table, read in a browser on 2026-09-05: English 4; mathematics 3 (Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II; a fourth highly recommended); science 3 with two laboratory courses; social studies 3 (U.S. history, world history with geography, a half unit each of government and of economics or geography); 2 advanced electives with one in foreign language or world geography; a half unit of computer applications. Algebra I or first-year foreign language taken in eighth grade counts. Foreign language and the arts are not itemised as their own lines. University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) requirements (source), checked 2026-09-05.
Mississippi State University
| Subject | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4 | 4 |
| Math | 4 | 4 |
| Science | 3 | 4 |
| Social studies | 3 | 3 |
| Foreign language | – | – |
| Arts | 1 | 1 |
2 Carnegie units of advanced electives: Foreign Language I plus one unit from the CPC's Option 3 list (AP, dual credit or an approved career and technical course), not necessarily two years of one language
Same statewide IHL College Preparatory Curriculum used across all 8 Mississippi public universities. Mississippi State University requirements (source), checked 2026-09-05.
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How Trellis checks your transcript against this table
In Trellis, the courses you plan and the work your children check off become the transcript as you go. The graduation card reads that transcript against the table above and says, subject by subject, what is earned and what is still open, and it notices a course filed under the wrong heading before a college does. Nothing is retyped at the end of senior year.
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