New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University, or NMSU, is a major land-grant university in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It also has campuses in Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Doña Ana County, and Grants, with extension and research centers across New Mexico.
The school was founded in 1888 as the Las Cruces College, an agricultural college, and in 1889 the school became New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. It received its present name in 1960. NMSU has approximately 18,497 students enrolled as of Fall 2009, and has a faculty-to-student ratio of about 1 to 19. NMSU offers a wide range of programs and awards associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees through its main campus and four community colleges. NMSU is the only research-extensive, land-grant, USA-Mexico border institution classified as Hispanic serving by the federal government.
Vision
Living The Vision is considerably different from prior NMSU Strategic Directions and Targets. This Plan establishes the vision that NMSU will be a premier University as defined relative to peer institutions. The Plan has five goals each with six or fewer objectives. Each objective has at least one quantifiable measure to be benchmarked against defined peers. Living The Vision leaves the strategies for achieving the objectives to the managers at the College/Division/Department levels and integrates performance planning with the overall budget and outcomes/evaluation processes.
Courses Offered
- Undergraduate Programs
- Graduate Programs
Colleges
- College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
- College of Arts and Sciences
- College of Business
- College of Education
- College of Engineering
- College of Extended Learning
- Graduate School
- College of Health and Social Services
- College of Honors
Centers & Institutes
- Agricultural Experiment Station
- Bureau for Business Research and Services
- Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center (CDRCC)
- Institute for Energy and Environment (IEE)
- Manufacturing Technology and Engineering Center (M-TEC)
- Physical Science Laboratory,
- Water Resources Research Institute
Contact Details
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003-8001
Operator: 575-646-0111
Official Website: http://www.nmsu.edu/
