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public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Pullman, Washington, U.S. It is Washington's land-grant university under the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862. Washington State comprises a graduate school, the Intercollegiate College of Nursing (a four-university program located in Spokane), and colleges of agriculture and home economics, sciences, business and economics, liberal arts, education, engineering and architecture, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine. In addition to undergraduate studies, the university offers a range of graduate degree programs and professional degrees in veterinary medicine and pharmacy. There are branch campuses in Spokane, Vancouver, and Richland. Research facilities include the Geoanalytical Laboratory, the Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, the State of Washington Water Research Center, and the Nuclear Radiation Center. Total enrollment is approximately 21,000.

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