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Texas College

School profile and reference information, including highlights, admissions, student body, degrees, and contact info.

Campus Location

2404 N. Grand Avenue
Tyler, TX 75702
USA
Main Tel: 90359383112270
Web Site

The campus is in a small city.

Highlights

Where the school stands out most compared to other schools (details below):

  • Christian Methodist Episcopal religious affiliation.
  • Historically black college.
  • Many students concentrating in business and management, education and teaching, nutrition and exercise therapy, science, and mathematics.
  • Superior share of faculty on tenure track.
  • Unusually high availability of athletic financial aid.
  • Racially diverse student body.
  • Number of dorm rooms for students.
  • High male/female ratio.
  • Large number of programs of study offered.

Other important characteristics:

  • Open admission; accepts all qualified candidates
  • Faculty tenure system
  • Library on-campus
  • Campus housing available
  • Student meal (board) plan
  • Distance learning available
  • Part-time classes available
  • Athlete financial aid

Degrees Awarded (in 2008-2009)

DegreeTotal
Earned
Different
Programs
Bachelor8215
Postbaccalaureate certificate81
Associate11

Students

Texas College is a historically black college.

Student enrollment was 774 in 2007-2008 (972 full-time equivalent).

Undergrads are 94% of enrolled students and graduate students are 6%.

Students living in the US make up 100% of incoming freshmen.

Tuition and Other Costs (2008-2009)

ItemCost
State Tuition and fees$ 9,228
Room$ 3,600
Board$ 3,000
Books and supplies$ 1,600
Other$ 2,150

Financial Aid: Texas College participates in US Title IV financial assistance programs.

Please refer to BrainTrack's financial aid articles section for background information.

Faculty

Tenure (2008-2009):

Full-Time Faculty  Total
With tenure  1
Without tenure; working toward tenure  34

Housing and Meals

Texas College provides on-campus housing for 453 of its 972 (full-time) students (as of 2008-2009).

Students may purchase a meal plan which includes 19 meals weekly.

Athletics

School sports include football (Central States Football League), basketball (Red River Athletic Conference), baseball (Red River Athletic Conference), and track (Red River Athletic Conference).

The school offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 93 male students received the aid (men were 64% of those receiving aid) and 52 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 36% of students receiving such aid) .

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees awarded in 2008-2009 in parentheses)

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (37 awarded)

  • Business Administration and Management

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (3 awarded)

  • Computer Science

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (11 awarded)

  • Education

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (6 awarded)

  • Social Work

FINE ARTS (0 awarded)

  • Fine/Studio Arts

LIBERAL ARTS (16 awarded)

  • English Language and Literature
  • General Studies
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
  • Political Science and Government
  • Social Sciences
  • Sociology

MATHEMATICS (1 awarded)

  • Mathematics

MUSIC (1 awarded)

  • Music

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (7 awarded)

  • Health and Physical Education/Fitness

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (1 awarded)

  • Religion/Religious Studies

SCIENCE (8 awarded)

  • Biology/Biological Sciences

Selected Careers of Interest

(Based on an automated mapping of degrees popular at Texas College with government-defined occupation categories.)

Click occupations below for career details, including job description, studies, degree requirements, how to evaluate schools, and more.

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