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Overview of South Dakota State University
The cultural and physical landscape of South Dakota State University is changing, and changing dramatically. From a student enrollment stretching over 11,000 to the monumental move to Division I athletics, the University is demonstrating once again that “You can go anywhere from here!”
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| Seventy-five percent of entering freshmen are in the upper half of their high school class and forty-two percent are in the top twenty-five percent. Seventy percent are residents of South Dakota, thirty percent come from fifty states and forty-five international countries.
More than 200 majors, minors and options are available with more than 6,000 course offerings. Master’s degrees are offered in more than thirty areas, and doctorates are available in eight fields. The University also offers degree programs through USDSU in Sioux Falls. Evening, DDN, Internet, off-campus courses and classes through the Cooperative Extension Service Learning Centers are available through the Outreach Programs Office.
South Dakota State University is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Supplementing classroom instruction are the Harding Distinguished Lecture Series, the F.O. Butler Lectures, Sewrey Colloquium, and the Joseph Nelson, Amdahl, Schultz-Werth, Ethel Austin Martin, and Griffiths endowments. Students also have an extraordinary opportunity for growth and development in choosing from the nearly 200 clubs and organizations active on campus.
The University reaches all corners of the state through the Cooperative Extension Service and the Agricultural Experiment Station, offering service that seeks to improve the quality of rural life. Also at SDSU are the programs within the Engineering Resource Center: Engineering Extension, Office of Remote Sensing, South Dakota Local Transportation Assistance Program (LTAP), and the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium. Additionally, the Product Development Center, the Water Resources Institute, the Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, and the Northern Grain Insect Research Laboratory units all help strengthen the University’s commitment to research in areas of energy and water resources, and support of state and local economic development efforts through agricultural research and information transfer.
Other Campus Facilities
SDSU is also home to the South Dakota Art Museum, the first fully accredited museum in the state to be recognized by the American Association of Museums. SDAM’s collections include early masterpieces of Sioux Indian Tribal art, the famed Harvey Dunn paintings of pioneer life, and an extensive collection of Oscar Howe and Paul Goble’s American Indian art. The exclusive Vera Way Marghab Linen Collection, the world’s largest complete collection, features nearly 3,000 pieces of the exquisite, handstitched linen.
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