Quick Facts
Basics
- Location: Nacogdoches, Texas – 140 miles northeast of Houston, 180 miles southeast of Dallas
- Main campus size: 406 acres
- Affiliation: Public university governed by autonomous Board of Regents, appointed by the governor and approved by the Texas Legislature
- Enrollment: 11,607 (fall 2007)
Faculty
- Instructional faculty, including part-time: 627
- Professors and instructors with highest degree in their field: 85 percent
- Student-faculty ratio: 19 to 1
Colleges
- Nelson Rusche College of Business
- James I. Perkins College of Education
- College of Fine Arts
- Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
- College of Liberal and Applied Arts
- College of Sciences and Mathematics
Academics
- Enrollment periods: Two 16-week semesters (fall and spring) and two 5 1/2-week summer terms per year
- Accrediting body: Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
- Programs offered: 83 undergraduate majors and more than 120 areas of study; nearly 50 graduate degrees, including two doctoral programs
Costs*
- Undergraduate tuition/fees academic year (12 semester hours per semester, for two semesters)
- Texas resident: approximately $5,064
- Non-Texas resident: approximately $11,736
- Room and board – average for academic year: $7,266
- Financial aid awarded 2006-2007: $93.9 million
History
- Founded as: Teachers’ college
- Chartered by Legislature: April 4, 1917 – put on hold because of World War I
- Funding legislation signed: 1921
- Nacogdoches selected as site: July 14, 1921
- First classes: September 18, 1923