Idaho State University is a public university operated by the state of Idaho. Its main campus is in Pocatello with outreach programs in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Falls, Boise, and Twin Falls. ISU has more than 280 programs. Its seven colleges offer programs in the natural and physical sciences, humanities, performing and visual arts, education, engineering, business, pharmacy, and technology. Enrollment for fall semester 2009 was 15,553 total students, making ISU the second largest major university in the State of Idaho, based upon full-time enrollment. ISU previously enrolled a large number of older, part-time students who live and work off-campus; this demographic is making up less of ISU's population as it attempts a transition towards a more traditional undergraduate population. The student-teacher ratio at ISU is 16:1. Notable programs at ISU include pharmacy, physics, biology, liberal arts, anthropology, business, physician assistant and nursing. ISU is attempting to open the state's first medical school, and has begun a Family Medicine Residency Program that was awarded a $960,000 federal grant. On March 11, 1901, Governor Frank W.