New Mexico State University, or NMSU, is a major land-grant university in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It also has campuses in Alamogordo (Alamogordo, New Mexico), Carlsbad (Carlsbad, New Mexico), Do�a Ana County (Do�a Ana County, New Mexico), and Grants (Grants, New Mexico), 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 (associate degree), bachelors (bachelors degree), masters (masters degree), and doctoral (doctorate) 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 (Hispanic-serving institution) by the federal government.