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In 2013, Queens College was ranked #2 nationally in Washington Monthly's "Best Bang For Your Buck" college guide. [53] In 2015, Queens College was included in The Princeton Review's list of top 322 green campuses. [54] In 2020, Queens College was ranked #4 as one of the "24 Colleges with the Best Return on Investment" by Business Insider. [55]
The 36th president of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, graduated from the institution in 1930; [12] Texas State University is the only college or university in Texas to have a U.S. president as an alumnus. Texas State's main campus consists of 259 buildings on 517 acres (2.09 km 2) of hilly land along the San Marcos River.
During the second five-year plan (1956–60) in India, a number of industrial projects were contemplated. To ensure enough supply of trained personnel to meet the demand for these projects, a decision was taken to start the Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs), at the rate of one per each major state, which can churn out graduates with good engineering merit.
[16] [17] North Texas would leave the system the same year becoming independently governed North Texas State College. [18] North Texas would later become the flagship campus of the University of North Texas System. Similar name changes would result in Southwest Texas State College in 1959 and Sam Houston State College in 1965. [9] West Texas ...
In early 1995, the school moved into a new building located on the campus of Queens College. [10] In 2000, Eileen F. Lebow published a history of the original school, The Bright Boys: A History of Townsend Harris High School (ISBN 0-313-31479-9).
Texas A&M University is the state's largest of higher learning in terms of enrollment and largest public university, having 77,491 students [3] while Southwest College for the Deaf is the state's smallest college with an enrollment of 48 in the fall of 2023. [4]
The Levine Center for Wellness and Recreation is located on campus and contains Curry Arena, the aquatic center, as well as office and practice space. The facility is home to the basketball, swimming & diving, volleyball, and wrestling programs and was built in 2012 to replace the Ovens Athletic Center.
During the mid-1960s, ASC built a new student health center, completed an addition to its student center, built an auditorium and a theater, upgraded its physical education building, and expanded campus parking. The college's main campus covered 130 acres (53 ha), and it owned another 100 acres (40 ha) of former farmland west of the main campus ...