North Dakota State University of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, more commonly known as North Dakota State University (NDSU), is a public university in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. It is the largest university in North Dakota with about 14,000 students. Founded as North Dakota Agricultural College in 1890 as a land grant institution, it sits on a 258 acre(1 km²) campus. The school also operates several agricultural research centers spread over 22,000 acres (89 km²). NDSU is part of the North Dakota University System. NDSU offers 108 bachelor's, 75 minors, 63 master's, 44 doctoral, and 10 graduate certificate programs. NDSU is a comprehensive doctoral research university with programs involved in high research activity. NDSU uses a semester system - Fall and Spring with two summer sessions. The majority of students are full-time with 54.7% male and 45.3% female. The bill founding North Dakota Agricultural College (NDAC) was signed on March 8, 1890, seven years after initial plans to start an agricultural college in the northern portion of the Dakota Territory. NDAC was established as a land grant university. On October 15, 1890 Horace E.