Texas A&M University at Texarkana
Texas A & M University at Texarkana is an upper level university which shares the campus of Texarkana College and provides citizens of the four-state region a convenient and economical opportunity to earn a four-year or graduate degree. Since its founding in 1971 as East Texas State University – Texarkana, the university has graduated more than 6000 students with bachelor and/or master degrees in business, education and the arts and sciences.
With the easy accessibility of all classrooms, offices and student services located in one modern building, Texas A & M University at Texarkana students also have one year advantage or year round courses provided by mini-terms offered between semesters and in flexible times and formats. Students share a large library operated jointly with Texarkana College and have access to a full athletic facility and student center. Each semester, Texas A & M University at Texarkana enrolls about 1200 students whose average age is 32 and of whom approximately 69 percent are female.
Texas A & M University-Texarkana’s primary goal is to provide career-oriented programs for students living in Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas. The university’s new teacher preparation program, the Center for Professional Development and Technology, won two national awards in 1995, and the university’s business students have won state or national Phi Beta Lambda Student Business Leaders competition awards for 12 years in a row.
Founded in 1927, Texarkana College is today a fully accredited comprehensive community college serving approximately 6000 academic-credit students and over 9000 non-credit students. Texarkana College is situated on a beautifully landscaped 90-acre campus and features first class buildings and facilities. The college offers the first two years of the baccalaureate degree as well as numerous vocational/technical programs designed to meet the needs of the Four-States area.
Further, the college activity encourages relationships with business and industry, and works closely with the Chamber of Commerce to meet specific education and training needs of new and emerging business/industry.
The college is located on the Texas side of Texarkana and, through an interstate reciprocity agreement, neither Arkansas nor Oklahoma residents have to pay out-of-state tuition to attend.
