SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY

public, coeducational institution of higher education in Brookings, S.D., U.S. It is the only land-grant institution in the state. It offers more than 80 undergraduate degree programs, master's degrees in over 30 fields, and doctorates in about 14 disciplines. The university is composed of the Graduate School and colleges of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, Arts and Science, Education and Counseling, Engineering, Home Economics, Nursing and Pharmacy. Research facilities include the Northern Plains Biostress Laboratory, the Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, the Northern Great Plains Water Resource Research Center, and the Northern Grain Insect Research Laboratory. Also on campus are the South Dakota Art Museum, McCrory Gardens, and the State Agricultural Heritage Museum. Total student enrollment is approximately 9,000. South Dakota State was established by an act of the Dakota Territorial Legislature in 1881. It was a land-grant college, under the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862. The Agricultural Experiment Station was founded in 1887. When the school was reorganized in 1923, it consisted of divisions of agriculture, engineering, home economics, pharmacy, and general science. In the 1950s nursing and graduate divisions were added; a division of education was created in 1975. The Coughlin Campanile, erected in 1930 to a height of 165 feet (50 m), is a distinguishing campus landmark.