Colleges / Universities

As a public comprehensive community college, Palo Alto College provides exemplary, accessible education and training to a diverse and aspiring community. The College educates, nurtures, and inspires students through a dynamic and supportive learning environment, which promotes the intellectual, cultural, economic and social life of the community.

 At Rice, undergraduates at all levels participate in cutting-edge research with world-class faculty in the humanities, social sciences, engineering and natural sciences. Premier architecture and music professors enhance classroom experiences with their exceptional talent and artistry.

San Antonio College offers a comprehensive liberal arts curriculum designed to satisfy the requirements of the first two years of a baccalaureate degree.

 Personal attention and powerful academic programs have made St. Mary's, located on 135 acres northwest of downtown San Antonio, a nationally recognized liberal arts institution.

From humble beginnings in 1876 as Texas' first public institution of higher learning, to a bustling 5,000-acre campus with a nationally recognized faculty, Texas A&M University is one of a select few universities with land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant designations.

Texas Southern University, one of the nation’s largest historically black universities, possesses an impressive array of undergraduate and graduate programs, a diverse faculty, 80-plus student organizations, and an alumni network comprised of educators, entrepreneurs, public servants, lawyers, pilots, artists, and more, many of whom are change agents on the local, national and international stage.

Texas Tech University prides itself on being a major comprehensive research university that retains the sense of a smaller liberal arts institution.

Since its creation in 1944, UNAM in San Antonio has symbolized a tradition of academic and cultural collaboration between Mexico and the United States. Their mission is to promote a better understanding between both countries, pursuing their goals of teaching, research and the dissemination of culture.

The mission of the University of Houston is to discover and disseminate knowledge through the education of a diverse population of traditional and non-traditional students, and through research, artistic and scholarly endeavors, as it becomes the nation’s premier public university in an urban setting.

The mission of The University of Texas System is to provide high-quality educational opportunities for the enhancement of the human resources of Texas, the nation, and the world through intellectual and personal growth.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is an institute of health science education and research. It is ranked as the 14th largest medical school in the United States in terms of enrollment.

The University of Texas at Austin is a major research university home to more than 50,000 students, 2,900 faculty and 21,000 staff members.

With more than 29,100 students enrolled in 133 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, UTSA is the second-largest institution in the University of Texas System and has been one of the state's fastest-growing public universities for much of the last decade.