South Dakota State University in Brookings is the largest comprehensive university in South Dakota. The school was founded in 188 1, formerly known as Dakota Agricultural College, and changed its name in 1964. At present, the major of the school mainly involves three fields: engineering, agronomy and biological science. In addition, there are eight colleges, namely, art and science, education and consulting, family and consumer science, common sense and promotion, honor, nursing, pharmacy and graduate school. * * * There are more than 200 majors and more than 6,000 courses to choose from. Undergraduate majors mainly include general education, silver resource economy, dairy manufacturing, dairy products, environmental management, wildlife and fishery science, sports training, graphic design, music education, park recreation management, vocational and technical education, agricultural bioengineering, civil environmental engineering, construction management, electronic engineering technology and electrical engineering. Postgraduate majors mainly include family and consumer science, pharmacy, geographical science and engineering, engineering, computer science and statistics, consulting and human resources development, curriculum and teaching, education management, communication and journalism, clinical and laboratory research, etc. , involving more than 30 fields, and doctoral programs involving 8 fields. The graduates of this university have made outstanding achievements in many fields, including Nobel Prize in Literature, chief of staff and majority leader of the US House of Representatives. In the Carnegie ranking of South Dakota, the university is a national postdoctoral research intensive unit and a world-leading research institution, ranking third in the annual ranking of US News and World Report.