New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University is a public land-grant and space-grant university in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It was founded in 1888 as Las Cruces College, became the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and took its present name in 1960. Statewide extension, agriculture, and engineering define its mission on the Chihuahuan Desert.

Colleges include Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences; Arts and Sciences; Business; Engineering; and Health, Education and Social Transformation. The Physical Science Laboratory supports aerospace and defense research. Chile-pepper breeding, water and rangeland science, and astronomy are long-standing fields. Arrowhead Center handles technology transfer.

About 14,000 students enroll, with graduate students a minority and a large Hispanic enrollment plus students from Mexico and farther abroad. Faculty number about 1,000. Alumni include Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith.

Graduate study emphasizes research master's and doctoral degrees in engineering, agriculture, and the sciences, with teaching and research assistantships typical of a land-grant campus. The calendar is two semesters. Students live in Las Cruces at the foot of the Organ Mountains, about 40 miles north of El Paso.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, New Mexico State University lists 1 doctoral program, in computer science.