What year was texas state university founded and whats the size of the campus?
The school was established by Texas’ twenty-sixth legislature in 1899, and it opened its doors in 1903 as Southwest Texas State Normal School in order to meet a need for teachers in the southwest part of the state. In more than a 100-year period, the school has gone from a teachers’ college to a multipurpose university. The campus is in San Marcos, a community of nearly 50,000 people about halfway between Austin and San Antonio on Interstate 35. Its location on the banks of the San Marcos River provides students with recreational and leisure activities, such as swimming and tubing, throughout the year. Overlooking the campus and serving as a geographic landmark since 1903 is Old Main, a restored red-gabled Victorian Gothic building. In more than a century of use the building has served many uses from being the university’s administration building to an auditorium and chapel to now housing the offices for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as well as the College of Fine Art
The school was established by Texas’ twenty-sixth legislature in 1899, and it opened its doors in 1903 as Southwest Texas State Normal School in order to meet a need for teachers in the southwest part of the state. In more than a 100-year period, the school has gone from a teachers’ college to a multipurpose university. The campus is in San Marcos, a community of nearly 50,000 people about halfway between Austin and San Antonio on Interstate 35. Its location on the banks of the San Marcos River provides students with recreational and leisure activities, such as swimming and tubing, throughout the year. Overlooking the campus and serving as a geographic landmark since 1903 is Old Main, a restored red-gabled Victorian Gothic building. In more than a century of use the building has served many uses from being the university’s administration building to an auditorium and chapel to now housing the offices for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as well as the College of Fine Art
Texas State University–San Marcos, often referred to as Texas State University or Texas State, was established by Texas in 1899, and it opened its doors in 1903 as Southwest Texas State Normal School. IT has since then changed names 5 times. Texas State’s campus today consists of a 457-acre main campus and 4,777 acres more in recreational, instructional, farm and ranch land. If you meant the amount of students enrolled, at the start of the Fall 2008 semester, the university had a record high enrollment of 29,125 students. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
