The Mission Resource Requirement (MRR) represents the level of funding necessary for an institution given its mission, size, and complexity of programs, based on regional and national norms, and the amount of the previous year's appropriation. This document is the MRR for the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education for Fiscal Year 2005-2006. It is divided into the following sections: (1) Introduction (Act 359); (2) Mission Resource Requirements (MRR) Guiding Principles; (3) MRR Numeric Summary, by Step; and (4) Outline of MRR. Following these sections, 10 tables are presented: (1) Institutional Sector/Grouping; (2) Sector I Student/Faculty Ratios and Faculty Salaries; (3) Sector II Student/Faculty Ratios and Faculty Salaries; (4) Sector III Student/Faculty Ratios and Faculty Salaries; (5) Sector IV Student/Faculty Ratios and Faculty Salaries; (6) Expenditures per Student; (7) Operations & Maintenance of Plant Formula; (8) Operations & Maintenance of Plant Definitions; (9) CHE Definitions; and (10) Funding Medical and Dental Education. Appended are: (1) Performance Funding; and (2) MRR Numeric Calculation by Institution by Step.