Higher Education Partners
- Delta State University
- – Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Information Technologies
- East Central Community College
- East Mississippi Community College
- Holmes Community College
- Itawamba Community College
- Mississippi State University
- – National Strategic Planning and Analysis Research Center
- Northeast Mississippi Community College
- Northwest Mississippi Community College
- University of Mississippi
- – Center for Population Studies
- – Insight Park: University of Mississippi Research Park
- – Institute for Community-Based Research
- – McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement
- – Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute
- – Mississippi Small Business Development Center
- – State Data Center of Mississippi