North Dakota State University

North Dakota State University (NDSU, formally North Dakota State University of Agriculture and Applied Sciences) is a public land-grant research university in Fargo, North Dakota. It was founded as North Dakota Agricultural College in 1890 as the state's land-grant university. As of 2021, NDSU offers 94 undergraduate majors, 146 undergraduate degree programs, 5 undergraduate certificate programs, 84 undergraduate minors, 87 master's degree programs, 51 doctoral degree programs of study, and 210 graduate certificate programs. It is classified among "R1-Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity".

NDSU is part of the North Dakota University System. The university also operates North Dakota's agricultural research extension centers distributed across the state on . In 2015, NDSU's economic impact on the state and region was estimated to be $1.3 billion a year according to the NDUS Systemwide Economic Study by the School of Economics at North Dakota State University. As of 2022, it was also the sixth-largest employer in the state of North Dakota.{{Cite web |title=NDLMI - Largest Employers in North Dakota Datasets |url=https://www.ndlmi.com/vosnet/gsipub/documentView.aspx?enc=SzxSHY24bqDSyc7vR6qcOQ Provided by Wikipedia