Basics
• Location: Nacogdoches, Texas – 140 miles northeast of Houston, 180 miles southeast of Dallas
• Main campus size: 360 acres
• Affiliation: Public university governed by autonomous Board of Regents,
appointed by the governor and approved by the Texas Legislature
• Enrollment: 11,287 (fall 2004)
Faculty
• Instructional faculty, including part-time: 667
• Full-time with highest degree in their field: 85 percent
• Student-faculty ratio: 18 to 1
Colleges
College of Applied Arts and Sciences
Nelson Rusche College of Business
College of Education
College of Fine Arts
Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
College of Liberal 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: more than 80 undergraduate majors and 120 areas of study; nearly 60 graduate degrees, including two doctoral programs
• First-time freshman average composite ACT score matches national average and exceeds Texas average (fall 2004)
• First-time freshman average combined SAT score exceeds Texas average (fall 2004)
Costs*
• Undergraduate tuition/fees academic year (15 semester hours per semester, for two semesters)*
Texas resident: approximately $4,718
Louisiana or Arkansas resident: approximately $5,618
Non-Texas resident: approximately $12,998
• Room and board – average for academic year: $5,858
• Financial aid awarded 2003-2004: $62,891,002 to 8,005 students
*Based on costs at time of printing; subject to change
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 |
