Talk:List of colleges and universities in Texas

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The St. Philips College link is going to a school in Australia, I don't believe there has been an article created for the community college with the same name in Texas. Csyberblue 04:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

fixed Oldag07 (talk) 11:40, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Split

I feel we should split this into three parts:

List of universities in Texas
List of colleges in Texas
List of professional schools in Texas

Oldag07 (talk) 03:39, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Where would technical schools and junior/community colleges be placed? →Wordbuilder (talk) 04:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And you feel this because...? --ElKevbo (talk) 04:37, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For Wordbuilder's comment, we would put junior/community colleges into "List of colleges in Texas".

As for ElKevbo's comment, I believe in this split because:

Each new page would still be very large. Community colleges alone would be 68 entries (with the individual campuses on some of these removed), as such, instead of what i feel to be a very large page in with it it is relatively difficult to find each individual institution, we would have several pages making it easier to navigate.
Professional schools seem a little out of place. many are still part of their parent institutions. SMU college of law, i believe is simply a college within the SMU system. It is awkward to list things twice on this page, but not so much in a separate one.
While on a page like this, there is no room for elaboration on each individual insitution. Smaller pages would allow for blurbs about each institution.

Oldag07 (talk) 06:38, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As for some of the points against moving it: Q. All of the other states have "list of colleges and universities of XXXX". why should we change A. Because Texas has a larger than average number of these institutions. see Nebraska's

Q. We need to conform to the template at the bottom. A. We can have a disambiguation like page named "colleges and universities in Texas", or institutions of higher learning in Texas that links to both pages.

Q. It is a lot of work. A. not necessarily. the page itself is already divided into many sections. If we don't get fancy, it might not be much more than a simple copy paste job. Adding the extra details I talked about above will take time, but, even without extra information, the page should look fine.

Oldag07 (talk) 06:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clever,but 3 pages is a lot harder to browse than one,and the pages would be very long.And can anybody make a list of US colleges by state?

Support - The list now, while well divided into sections, is rather long. Split, it would be easier to navigate. →Wordbuilder (talk) 16:38, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Before i do a split, or even if i don't, and just subdivide, should things institutions simply be divided by name?

Concordia University
Dallas Christian College

And than there is the for profit: Devry University. and the institutes. confusing. . . grrr Oldag07 (talk) 18:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is harder to split than i thought. I'll leave it alone for now. Oldag07 (talk) 04:16, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

U of H

Why exactly is it that the University of Houston System needs it's own special section? As a simple list of institutions of higher learning in Texas, shouldn't they all be presented fairly uniformly? Apollo883 (talk) 21:17, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Defining "Large" Private Colleges and Universities

The word "large" is very subjective, but I would like to propose adding schools in the enrollment range of 4,000 to 6,000 into the table for "Large Private Colleges and Universities." As of today (2-9-16) those additional schools would be:

Currently these four schools are lumped in with dozens of others in the "medium" category--many of which have fewer than 1,000 students--and I think their enrollment levels deserve more recognition than that. I'll let this proposal gather comments until March 9th before making any changes.

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Instead of inventing your own definition, use the size portion of the Carnegie Size & Setting classification. ElKevbo (talk) 15:56, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That suggestion is so good, I'll go ahead and alter the page based on those standards now. Wiki.Alkaline.Unique (talk) 14:49, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Major cleanup needed

This portion of this list article dealing with technical and community colleges is a mess with odd exclusions and inappropriate inclusions.

The article lists the state-supported two-year colleges belonging to the Texas State Technical College System, but the two-year institutions belonging to the Texas State University System are nowhere to be found. Granted, Lamar Institute of Technology in Beaumont, Lamar State College-Orange, and Lamar State College-Port Arthur should not be listed with their full-fledged university system counterparts in the four-year public university section, but they are not listed elsewhere, either. Although they all have historic ties to Lamar University, they are now separate and autonomous members of the system.
In the community colleges section, the Alamo and Dallas districts have sub-lists of component campuses while other large urban or multiple county districts with several campuses (Houston, Tarrant, Southwest Texas as examples) do not. More weirdly, the Lone Star district campuses are listed as standalone institutions instead of as part of a district sub-list. Ideally, either all campuses should be listed consistently, or none of them unless the district shares the name of its one, singular campus. Of the two choices, I would prefer the latter to keep the list from being excessively long and to keep it from bleeding red from dead links. Following the links to the district articles for individual campus details should be sufficient.
Rio Grande College does not belong in the community colleges list. RGC is an extension of Sul Ross State University, does not offer two-year associate degrees nor certifications, nor does it offer freshman and sophomore courses. RGC campuses are all located on or near Southwest Texas Junior College campuses and allow students at those institutions to continue their education receiving bachelors and masters degrees from Sul Ross without having to relocate. Fortguy (talk) 07:44, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Baylor College of Medicine

Any idea why this isn't listed? It is mentioned as no longer affiliated with some A&M program, but doesn't have a listing of its own. Should it go under Medical Science? Or under private universities?

Just to be clear: Baylor College of Medicine has been independent from Baylor University for 60+ years. Crazytonyi (talk) 14:11, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Overhaul

I'm in the midst of cleaning up the page.

Public first, by University system. The data points need to be refreshed to 2023 sources.

Then Private Schools, etc.

This will follow a similar format to the California schools list, but a bit nicer with system colors, etc. TAMUH (talk) 20:20, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]