South Dakota State University

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South Dakota State University is the State's largest and most comprehensive university with more than 200 academic programs. Our students get a personal, practical education on a vibrant campus with faculty that are engaged in the classroom and throughout campus.
Flexible academic programs provide hands-on learning with professional experiences through internships, study abroad, and experiential learning today's students seek. We prepare students to make a difference in the world.
The State's value is found in excellent academics, affordability through value-driven tuition and scholarship opportunities, and a campus community that creates Jackrabbits for life. More than 200 student organizations are available to ensure there is something for everyone.
At SDSU, we challenge our students, faculty, and staff to imagine. Imagination is the most powerful tool we have to achieve our dreams. It is also a powerful tool as we seek to fulfill the collective responsibility we have. Standing on our historic land-grant mission, imagination is the catalyst that has helped our students and faculty positively impact helping change the world.
SDSU students are provided with the education and opportunity to become the next generation of CEOs, architects, public officials, musicians, engineers, artists, scientists, healthcare providers, farmers and ranchers, inventors, graphic designers more. Our faculty continue to stretch the boundaries of knowledge, making discoveries through research and scholarly work that will drive tomorrow' soggy and foster global awareness.
Today, the classrooms at SDSU do not look like the classrooms of yesterday. While technology continues to change in order to enhance learning, the students and faculty themselves are different. They come from nearly every State in our nation and over 90 countries. They come from different backgrounds and are more racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse. This diversity enriches our campus community and helps prepare all students to live in a dynamic and exciting world.
South Dakota State University remains a healthy and robust institution of higher education. Our imaginations can guide us into the future as we continually seek to fulfill our land-grant mission of providing higher education benefits to all through education, research, and outreach.
The university generates nearly a billion dollars in economic impact throughout South Dakota from a state investment of just over $64 million. That is what 'proof our high-performing faculty and staff, with vital academic programs, effectively and efficiently educate and train our highly motivated students. It is a rIt's sensibility we take seriously, one that guides our university every day.
South Dakota State University offers a diverse academic portfolio of majors, minors, and specializations. We welcome you to our community of learners and encourage you to become part of the Jackrabbit family to discover your dreams and achieve your goals.
The Office of International Affairs (OIA) is a comprehensive home for international student and scholar services, international undergraduate admission, study abroad planning, and community connections programs. All services and activities are intended to help enrich international students' experience here at SDSU and expand global engagement for all students, faculty, and staff.
The land-grant heritage of South Dakota State University, which began with a college founded in 1881, originates from local and national legislation dating back to 1862. The Morrill Act, passed by Congress and signed by President Abraham Lincoln in July of that year, embodied a revolutionary idea in higher education. The legislation created a new type of educational institution to instruct in both liberal and practical arts to people in all parts of the country who needed to work for a living. In 1889, when South Dakota achieved statehood, Congress, acting under the Morrill Act of 1862, granted 160,000 acres of land for the use and support of the "agricul" real college." By acc "posting this land allocation, the State had to designate the Agricultural College as a land-grant college.
In 1965 Ph.D. programs were established in Agronomy, Agricultural Economics (later discontinued), Animal Science, and Plant Pathology (later discontinued). A decade later, in 1974, the College of General Registration was established to assist students undecided about majors, pre-professional students, or students who wanted a one or two-year general studies program. In 1975 the Department of Education was reorganized and renamed the Division of Education. In 1989 the Division of Education was granted college status. The College of Home Economics was renamed the College of Family and Consumer Affairs.
We are the State's State's university—and if you ask us, the best. With South Dakota' Dakota 'comprehensive range of academic offerings, there is a place to explore everything from aerospace to zoology. No matter which of our 175 fields of study our students pursue, they get a personal, practical education on our vibrant campus. Undergrads and graduate students alike learn to succeed in classes led by dedicated professors. And nearly all of our alumni carry lifelong memories of their Jackrabbit years. Hands-on research projects with nationally respected professors, internships that bring coursework to life, and choices from over 200 student organizations ensure that there is something for everyone. As a land-grant university, we always have 'veserved South Dakota. Today we build on that tradition by developing respreservedglobal leaders. So it's no it 'rise that our studentsstudents'ts after commencement are that is of their friends from other universities—95 percent of our students go onto jobs, graduate school, or other opportunities such as internships and fellowships.

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