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UTRGV inherited the academic accreditation of its legacy institutions. [32] The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. [33] UTRGV was notified on December 6, 2016 that it was being placed on a 12-month probation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
UTRGV has since delayed the start of varsity football to the 2025 season, though it plans to play an exhibition schedule in 2024. The school purchased H-E-B Park – later renamed to Robert and Janet Vackar Stadium – in 2024 to be the primary home of the football team in 2025.
In 2015, UTRGV entered into operation following the merger of UTPA and UT–Brownsville, founded as an extension of then-Pan American University at Texas Southmost College. UTRGV also created a new medical school. [4] On August 31, 2015, UTPA formally ceased operations to yield to the newly formed university, the University of Texas Rio Grande ...
The University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA), which was merged with the University of Texas at Brownsville in 2015 to form the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), had a football team when it was known as Edinburg College and was a junior college. [2]
On May 18, 2019, the Vaqueros clinched a share of the WAC regular season title, finishing 1st along with California Baptist and New Mexico State. UTRGV finished the regular season 34–19 with a 18–9 conference record. It is the first conference title of any sort since 1955, with the wins being the most in one season since winning 37 in 1991 ...
On February 14, 2014, The University of Texas System announced Dr. Francisco Fernandez as the founding dean of the UTRGV School of Medicine [3] On July 10, 2014, University of Texas Board of Regents unanimously approved the establishment of a doctor of medicine degree.
In his first season at UTRGV, the team finished 10–22 overall, with a 2–12 conference record. In the 2017–18 season, the Vaqueros went 15–16 while winning going 6–8 in WAC play before losing in the Quarterfinals to Seattle. This was the most wins by the team since the 2012–13 season in which they won 16 games.
The Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros men's soccer program represents the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in all NCAA Division I men's college soccer competitions. . Founded in 1987, and relaunched in 2015, the Vaqueros compete as associate members in the Western Athletic Confe