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Well-nighNMSU | New Mexico State University - BE BOLD. Shape the Future. Skip to main content Toggle navigation Menu | Quick Links Phonebook Campus Map Campuses Campus Calendars & Events Library Canvas Email myNMSU Apply • Visit • Give• InsideNMSUWell-nighNMSU Admissions Academics Student Life Research Extension & Outreach Economic Engagement News Apply • Visit • Give• InsideNMSUWell-nighNMSU We are a comprehensive research land-grant university excelling in teaching, research and public service. NMSU is truly a reflection of the region’s vibrant communities – an heady place to tackle challenges, find answers to important issues and prepare for the future. LearnIncreasingly▸ Be Bold. Shape the Future. New Mexico State University sits on a 900-acre campus and enrolls increasingly than 15,000 students from 49 states and 89 foreign countries. NMSU is a NASA Space GrantHigherand is home to the very first HonorsHigherin New Mexico. A Hispanic-serving institution, NMSU serves a multi-cultural population of students and polity members wideness the state at five campuses, a satellite learning part-way in Albuquerque, cooperative extension offices located in each of New Mexico's 33 counties, and 12 threshing research and science centers. Plus, loftiness education programs requite students maximum flexibility. Our Honors College, the very first one established in New Mexico, offers qualified undergraduates the opportunity to remoter enrich a challenging wonk program via rigorous classes taught by master teachers. NMSU is truly a reflection of the region's vibrant communities - an heady place to tackle challenges, find answers to important issues and prepare for the future. Our Mission The New Mexico State University System is the state’s land-grant university, serving the educational needs of New Mexico’s diverse population through comprehensive programs of education, research, extension education, and public service. Our Vision The New Mexico State University System will be a premier university as evidenced by demonstrated and quantifiable excellence in teaching, research, extension, outreach, service, economic development, and polity engagement relative to its peer institutions. To meet our vision of stuff a premier university, NMSU will be among the top quartile of peer institutions on 80% of measures of wonk program and teaching quality, research productivity, and economic goody to New Mexico.Politycolleges will benchmark versus all polity colleges in New Mexico.Well-nighNMSU Points of Pride Rankings Our Heritage Brief History Mission Statement Architectural Origins Past NMSU Presidents NMSU by the Numbers LeadershipWorkbenchof Regents Meet our Chancellor and President NMSU Strategic Plan (Vision 20/20) Museums & Collections Las Cruces Area Points of Pride Teaching Excellence ▸ Our defended professors provide the resources our students need to unzip their weightier and meet their wonk and personal goals. Inside and outside of the classroom, NMSU's professors urgently engage with undergraduate and graduate students, offering individual sustentation in a learning-centered environment. Celebrating Diversity ▸ NMSU is classified as a Hispanic-serving institution by the U.S. Department of Education and is a member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. For a second subsequent year, NMSU received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity ribbon by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. Leadership in Research ▸ NMSU has established interdisciplinary research clusters that build on institutional strengths and respond to local, regional, and national needs in areas such as natural resource sustainability, information sciences and security, space and aerospace programs, biosciences, and border-related programs. National Recognition ▸ NMSU is No. 1 in the state for contributions to the public good in social mobility, research and service, equal to Washington Monthly’s 2014 National Universities rankings. Cooperative Extension Service ▸ NMSU's Cooperative Extension Service (CES) is inside to delivering out our land-grant mission of delivering research-based information and practices to the diverse population of New Mexico. CES provides the people of New Mexico with practical, sound science and programs to modernize their quality of life. Serving through Outreach ▸ NMSU is the lead institution in the state for the NASA New Mexico Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium. Through these programs, we are charged with encouraging cooperative programs among universities, the aerospace industry, and local, state and federal governments. Our History NMSU was founded in 1888 as Las Cruces College. The Territorial Legislature of 1889 established the land-grant AgriculturalHigherand Experiment Station, which officially opened on January 21, 1890. During its first full wonk year, the higher became known as the New MexicoHigherofThreshingand Mechanic Arts, the first degree-granting institution in the Territory. Under the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862 and subsequent federal legislation, the special mission of land-grant institutions has been to provide a liberal and practical education for students and to sustain programs of research, extension education, and public service. LearnIncreasinglyabout Our Heritage ▸ Previous Next New Mexico Department ofThreshing(NMDA) Written increasingly than 100 years ago, the New Mexico State Constitution tabbed for “a department of threshing [under] the workbench of regents of the higher of threshing and mechanic arts.” That explains the collaborative relationship that still exists between the New Mexico Department ofThreshingand New Mexico State University, as well as why NMDA is located on the campus of NMSU. Today, NMDA works to promote local supplies and agriculture, to protect the health of large and small animals, to ensure high-quality dairy products, to well-wisher for farmers and ranchers’ reliance upon natural resources, to promote the tried use of agricultural inputs like plant seeds and fertilizer, and to ensure fairness in the marketplace. View the NMDA website ▸ Las Cruces, NM (575) 646-0111 Connect Contact Us Campus Calendars & Events Directory A-Z List Resources Employment Opportunities Copyright Privacy Non-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Services Emergency Information Institutional Equity / EEO Student Help & Complaint Process Inspection of Public Records Website Feedback © 2017 New Mexico State University -Workbenchof Regents | New Mexico Higher Education Dashboard Scroll to Top