Texas colleges
Texas is second most populated state of USA. The total area covered by Texas is 268,581 square miles .Major part of the population lives in Dallas and Houston. The meaning of the word Texas is those who are friends. Texas is aeronautical state having many energy and aeronautics industries. State also has more than 500 big companies. The Texas Medical Center located in Texas is the world?s largest research and healthcare institution. Texas has diverse culture. People from all part of world come here because of its great educational institutes, biomedical, manufacturing, energy and aerospace industries. The city is home to many skyscrapers building like JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo Bank Plaza, William, Bank of America Plaza, Renaissance Tower, Chase cent, Bank of America Center, Heritage Plaza. On the basis of Population Houston is the most populated city followed by San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, and El Paso.
Education in Texas:
Schools: Texas is known for its schools and colleges. The state has more than 1000 school districts. Most of these districts are independent school districts. The government or public schools are looked after by Texas Education Agency .The sole motive of these schools is to teach reading, spelling, grammar, mathematics and a study of good citizenship.
Colleges: Texas has more than 100 colleges and universities.
Description of some of the major university is given below:
University of Texas at Austin:
This University is known for its doctoral/research courses. The main college of this university is situated in Austin. The university was founded in 1883 and offers almost 100 undergraduate and 170 graduate degree plans. The university is the 4th largest university of country with more than 50,000 students and 20,000 teaching staff. The university gets more than $380 million funding for research jobs. Some of the major colleges of this university School of Architecture ,Business, College of Communication ,College of Education ,College of Engineering ,College of Fine Arts ,Graduate Studies ,School of Information, Jackson ,School of Law , Johnson School of Public Affairs. LBJ School of Public Affairs ,College of Liberal Arts ,College of Natural Sciences ,School of Nursing ,College of Pharmacy and School of Social Work
Texas A&M University:
This University is also called as TAMU is the 60th ranked university of America. It is situated in College Station, Texas. The university offers great research facilities. The university is granted as Land-, Sea-, and Space-Grant institution The various research courses are funded by big organizations like the National Institutes of Health, NASA, Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. The university offers almost 150 courses along with 18 research institutes. The university also offers full time cadet program. University has 10 colleges School, College, and College of Architecture .
University of Houston :
The University was founded in 1934 and was called as University of Houston, University Park. It is the only university granting doctoral degree. The total enrolment of university is 35, 500 students. University has 12 colleges covering almost 560-acres of land. The university offers almost 110 bachelors degree and 131 master degree courses along with 51 doctoral programs. Some of the major colleges of this university are C. T. Bauer College of Business ,College of Education ,Cullen College of Engineering ,Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management , University of Houston Law Center ,College of Liberal Arts and Social ,College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics ,College of Optometry ,College of Pharmacy ,Graduate College of Social Work ,College of Technology .
Texas Tech University:
The University is located in Lubbock. It was established in 1923.The university has 12 colleges offering more than 150 bachelors degree and more than 100 masters degree. University also provides doctorate degrees and is known as Research University. Some of the major colleges of this university are College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources ,College of Architecture ,College of Arts & Sciences ,Rawls College of Business ,College of Education ,College of Engineering, Graduate School ,Honors College ,College of Human Sciences ,School of Law ,
College of Mass Communications and College of Visual & Performing Arts.
Texas State University:
The University was founded in 1899 and is situated in San Marcos. The university
campus has very beautiful view and is situated at the bank of
The University of North Texas:
It is the public university located in Denton and was founded in 1890 by Chilton Joshua. The name of the university has changed for almost 6 times. It is the 4th largest university of Texas with enrolment of more than 30,000 students. Some of the major colleges of university are College of Arts and Sciences ,
College of Business Administration ,College of Education ,College of Engineering, College of Music ,College of Public Affairs and Community Service ,School of Library and Information Sciences ,School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management , School of Visual Arts and Toulouse School of Graduate Studies.
Some other universities of Texas are: Abilene Christian University ,Alamo Community College District ,Northwest Vista College ,St. Philip's College ,San Antonio College ,
Alvin Community College, Amarillo College, Amber Ton University, Angelina College University, Argosy, Arlington Baptist College ,The Art Institutes, Austin College, Clarendon College ,Coastal Bend College ,College of the Mainland ,Collin County Community College District ,Higher Education Center ,Preston Ridge ,Spring Creek ,Concordia University ,Criswell College ,Dallas Baptist University ,Dallas Christian College ,Dallas County Community College District ,Brookhaven College ,
El Centro College ,El Paso Community College ,Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest ,Frank Phillips College ,Galveston College ,Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics ,Grayson County College ,Hardin-Simmons University ,Hill College, Howard College, Howard Payne University, Huston-Tillotson University ,Lee College
Lincoln Tech, Lon Morris College, Midland College ,Midwestern State University , Odessa College ,Our Lady of the Lake University ,Panola College ,Paris Junior College , St. Edward's University ,San Jacinto College.
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