Today the university of New Mexico have an office located on each one of New Mexico’s Thirty three counties, and thousands of students attending the school from all over the United States, and on parts of the world, like many college New Mexico University have a great deal of history behind it. When the original Las Cruces College opened in 1888, New Mexico was still a territory The organizers of Las Cruces College led by a men Hiram Hadley, he was a respected educator from Indiana but he had even bigger plans in mind. Las Cruces College merged with N.M.A. &M.A., and the new school opened in 1890. That first semester there were only thirty five students in the college level and preparatory classes and six faculty members. Classes met in the old two-room building of Las Cruces College until suitable buildings could be put on the two hundreds and twenty acre campus three miles south of Las Cruces. And in 1960, the school had grown greatly, and its name was changed by state constitutional amendment to New Mexico State University. Today New Mexico State University sits on a nine hundreds acre campus and enrolls nearly seven teen students from all fifty states and from seventy one countries. Regular faculty members number six hundreds and ninety four.