Designated as South Dakota’s Land–grant University, South Dakota State University, formerly the State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, located at Brookings, in Brookings County, shall be under the control of the Board of Regents and shall provide undergraduate and graduate programs of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education in agriculture, education, engineering, home economics, nursing and pharmacy, and other courses or programs as the Board of Regents may determine.

Source: SDC 1939, §§ 15.1201, 15.1202; SL 1964, ch 54, §§ 1, 2; SDCL, §§ 13-58-2, 13-58-3; SL 1975, ch 128, § 356.