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Texas State University (TXST) is a public research university with its main campus in San Marcos, Texas, United States, and another campus in Round Rock.Since its establishment in 1899, the university has grown to be one of the largest universities in the United States.
The Texas Legislature has delegated administrative power and authority over the Texas State University System to its board of regents including the organization, control, and management of the system and each of its component institutions including employing and discharging the presidents, officers, and other employees of each member institution.
In January 2008 the merged student organisation adopted the U@MQ brand. The role of Student Representation was ultimately taken on by MUSRA (Macquarie University Student Representative Association) in 2009 with the first elections being held that year. By late 2009 the U@MQ brand was dropped in favour of the current name.
Texas State's MFA program ranked 45th out of 131 full-residency graduate writing programs in the Poets & Writers survey for the application year 2012, the final year the rankings were released. [1] The program was also cited by The New York Times as having the vision "to build a program that might rival the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop ."
The Texas State Bobcats men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Texas State University. The school's team currently competes in the Sun Belt Conference . They are currently led by Terrence Johnson , who took over in September 2020 following the resignation of Danny Kaspar . [ 2 ]
In 2008, Texas State overcame a 21–0 deficit to win the Southland Conference championship with a 48–45 overtime victory against Sam Houston State, its first outright league title since 1982. Texas State joined the WAC effective July 1, 2012. [42] Then, on July 1, 2013, season, Texas State moved to the Sun Belt Conference. [43]
The 2020 Texas State Bobcats football team represented Texas State University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bobcats played their home games at Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos, Texas, and competed in the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by second-year head coach Jake Spavital.
Texas has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Covering 268,596 square miles (695,660 km 2), and with some 31 million residents as of 2024, it is the second-largest state by both area and population. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State for its former status as an independent republic.