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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Are all the state schools in Texas land-grant colleges?
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Interesting question - the University of Texas and Texas A&M system schools are funded in part by the Permanent University Fund, established in 1876. Other systems - Texas State, Texas Tech, U of Houston, U of North Texas and some A&M and UT system schools - are prohibited by law from being funded by it, and instead since 1984 have received funds from the much less endowed Higher Education Assistance Fund. Not that I'm bitter.
I know for certain that Texas A&M was established because of the 1862 Morrill act (land grant college). Prairie View A & M is the historically black college established in 1876 as a land grant college. I don't think any of the others are land grant colleges.