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About NDSU

North Dakota State University is distinctive as a student-focused, land-grant, research university.

 

North Dakota State University

NDSU is an R1 research institution as defined by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. R1 is the top Carnegie status and is presented to only the top research institutions in the country that have a high level of research expenditures and produce PhD graduates across a balanced portfolio of disciplines. With more than $155 million in research expenditures in FY 2020 alone, NDSU also ranks 97 among 415 public universities by the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development Survey (HERD).

Main campus: Fargo, North Dakota, with Extension Service and Research Experiment Station locations across the state.

Fall 2021

Enrollment..................12,461
Undergraduate.........10,199
Professional...................300
Graduate......................1,962

 

Employees.................5,961

  • 78 Administrators
  • 699 Ranked Faculty and Lecturers
  • 140 Part-Time Academic Staff
  • 1,106 Graduate Assistants and Fellows
  • 298 Program Administrators and Coaches;
    Extension Educators, Experiment Station and Other Researchers
  • 1,339 Professional, Technical, Office, Trades and Service Staff
  • 2,301 Temporary Workers (including students)

There are 2,411 full-time employees and 3,550 part-time employees.

 

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