The university is located in College Station of Texas state. The students are called as Aggies. The typical uniform of the university is maroon and white coloured dress. The spirit of the institution pervades all in no time. Those who are keen to take part in track and field events like the university very much. New students will soon become members of the Aggies camp after the orientation programme titled ‘Fish Camp. The relationship developed with fellow students and the institution will be cherished by students all through their rest of the life.
The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley means new creation, new opportunities, new goals and new careers. The UTRGV which spread over the whole valley is shaping up future of students successfully. It has been contributing to improve the day-to-day life of students. The University targets to bring glory to the region in higher education, bilingual teaching, health education, bio-medical research at the global level. Taking advantage of available technology, the university is going to bring about the positive change.
It is the one and only university to have located in an island. The university located in Corpus Christi in the Gulf Coast near Texas is offering reputed graduate and doctoral degree programmes. It offers a total of 60 popular courses in the Texas state. To enable students reach top positions in industry in their chosen field of activity, the Texas A and M University, Corpus Christi is reputed to be offering 40 popular courses. The university, with renowned faculty members on its rolls, has been offering highly-rated degree programmes since 1947, The University figured among those universities which the students will give first preference to seek admission to.
The Texas A and M University-Kingsville is the product of ‘Teacher College’ or ‘Normal School’ movement launched in early 1900s. Though the university was established in 1917, the first batch graduated from it only in 1925 because of the World War-I. The university is the oldest public institute of higher learning in the South Texas. Since its inception in 1917 as South Texas Teachers’ College, the university has come a long way in redefining its objectives and undergone transformations with the expansion of its academic programmes and activities. In 1929, the college was renamed as Texas College of Arts and Industries. Later, it was merged with the Texas A and M University System. In recognition of its membership in the system, the university’s name has been changed to Texas A and M University-Kingsville.
The university of Texas Austin have campus which spread across 400 acres. The university has 16 different schools, 90 research centers, 2500 full-time teaching staff and 50,000 students. The students of the university can pursue 170 courses in 100 majors. Besides education, they can take part in the Longhorn football match and exploit opportunities to test their future in politics. They can entertain themselves with music concerts that are so special to Austin. The university stands as a testimony of providing learning opportunities mixing traditional learning with quality and research. The university offers courses that are useful to students of all cross-sections of society.
The University of Texas, Dallas was founded in 1969. The university was located in the middle of North Texas. The university which is soon going to be elevated as the Tier-I National Research Status is offering 133 degree programmes. It offers the latest degree and Undergraduate programmes with its revised curriculum.
The University of North Texas teaches not only education but also how to exercise prudence. It is one of the biggest universities in the Texas state. It is a public research university dedicated to achieving higher standards in education, improving the quality of education. It offers 99 bachelor’s programmes, 83 master’s programmes and 36 doctoral programmes.
The university of Mary Hardin was set up through special powers derived the republic Texas Act of 1845. Objective of the university is to inculcate the sense of strong leadership, service attitude and faith in the world community. Further, it extends qualitative education, individual attention, and extensive scholarship opportunities to the students. It also targets to inculcate obeisance to the Baptist perspective. Teaching in the university is based on Christian religious education. It seeks to emerge as the single-point destination for students of the South West for Christian religious education. It is the oldest college in the Texas State enjoying student strength of 3700 from 27 countries. More than 90 per cent of the students get financial aid in one way or the other.
The University of Texas, San Marcos located in the city of San Marcos. It was the fourth largest varsity in the country. There are 10 colleges, 50 schools and many departments functioning under its jurisdiction. It’s campus is spread over 457-acre area on the San Marcos’ river banks. It offers more than 200 undergraduate and post-graduate programmes to students.
The University of Texas –Arlington has many specialties. The university is known for its research activity. Standards-wise, the university occupied top position. Let us go deep to fathom what the University, which is synonymous with new discoveries and best of the courses, has to offer to the students. It is located in Arlington city. It has over 50.000 students on its rolls. UTA earned quite a reputation as one of the fastest growth educational research institute.
The Lamont University in the Texas State is a member of the Texas State University System. The core curriculum of the university has high standards. Compared to other universities the university classrooms are smaller. The student to teacher ratio is smaller. As a result the relations between the student and teacher are very cordial. In tune with these results, the university is posting good results. The Lamar University is a member of the Texas State University system. It offers over 100 bachelor’s, mas- ter’s and doctoral degrees and has a student strength of over 15,000. It is one of the fastest growing universities of all the colleges and universities in the Texas State.
The university is t he second largest in Texas State. The university has 124 programmes and 2300 courses for undergraduates. It is the first ever institution exclusively set up for African-Americans. The university which is a member of the Texas A and M University is known for its high standards and best courses. Several sportspersons are alumnus of the university. The university with its over 136-year-long history awarded over 46,000 degrees.
The Rice Baylor programme is the most popular programme of the university. The programme entitles admission to the biggest ever medical center The Baylor College of Medicine, which is located close to the university. Under the programme, only 14 undergraduates are inducted annually. Unfortunately, many pre-medical students could not afford to pursue a course overseas. To go overseas, they should be prepared to sacrifice many things. In fact, 50 per cent of the students of the course study at least one semester on a foreign soil.
The Louisiana State University is the biggest university in Louisiana. It is located in Baytonrose. The teaching is great in spite of smaller size of the classroom. It is located on the coast of Mississippi river. Let us explore the university. The university was founded in 1853. It is a public, coeducational university. It has a 2000-acre campus head quartered in Baytonrose. It is the flagship university in the Louisiana State University system. Going by the number of student enrolments, it is the biggest ever university in the State of Louisiana.
In 1881, the university was set up as a public, co-educational university in the State of Louisiana with its headquarters at Brayton Rouge. Its campus is spread across 512 acres. It has membership in Southern University System. It is one of the biggest historically black universities in the globe. It has secured land grant from the government. It is the first ever public university in the state of Louisiana to have offered doctoral programmes in nursing, public policy, urban affairs, science and mathematics education, special education, environment and toxicology. The US News and World Report-2016 awarded the tier-2 position to the university among the best colleges in regional universities (south).
The Georgia Technological University was established in 1885 as a public university. The University is headquartered in Atlanta with its main campus spread over a sprawling 400-acre site. It has membership in the University System of Georgia. It has satellite campuses in Savanna of Georgia state, Metz in France, Athlon in Ireland and Shanghai in China. In the list of the top public universities prepared by the US News and World Report the Georgia Technological University ranked number seven.
The Georgia Athens University is one of the important universities in the USA. The university has four campuses in the country. In the list of 100 best values in public colleges the university ranked 15th. It is renowned as the university where the highest quantum of research takes place. Though it belonged to a bygone era, the university is progressing adopting modern methods.
The Tennessee university is a public, co-educational university. The university headquartered in Nashville was set up in 1912. Its main campus is spread across 500 acres. Its Avon Williams campus is located in the city downtown. The university earned a place for 10 years in a row in the US News and World Report edition of Guide to America’s best colleges. The university has over 9000 students and 405 full-time faculty members. About 72.7 per cent of the faculty members have the highest academic qualifications in their subjects. Teacher to student ratio of the university is ‘17:1.
Emory University is a private and research-oriented university. The university with its main campus in Atlanta is spread over 600-acre site. The second biggest university in the state of Georgia. It was established in 1836. It is one of the top most 50 universities of the USA. The university was given 21st rank by the US News and World Report national universities rankings for 2016. The Carnegie Foundation described the university as the research university/university with highest research activity.
The Columbus State University founded in 1958 is one of the famous universities in the USA. The public university which is located 100 km away from Atlanta is a member of the Georgia Public School system. The university with its headquarters in Columbus has 132-acre campus. The university which offers the best programmes in art, education, business and nursing has 300 full-time faculty members. The student teacher ratio in the class is 18:1. The US News and World Report gave the 46th rank to the universities in the region.
University of West Georgia was founded in 1906. The university which has membership in the University System of Georgia has 645-acre campus. The Princeton Review recognised the institution, headquartered in Carrolton, as one of the best south eastern colleges At least 12000 students graduate from the university, which has full-time faculty members of 1100, which has various faculties. The university offers traditional class-room teaching and offline teaching.
The Middle Tennessee State University is one of the universities among 100 colleges and universities that produce Fulbright Scholars. Compared to Duke, Harvard, Yale Universities, the Middle Tennessee State University is ahead of them in this aspect. The university is described as a military-friendly university.
The University of Tennessee Chattanooga is a public university. Among the universities, it ranked number 58. It ranked 23 among the top public schools in the USA. It figured among the 296 topmost colleges.
The university was founded as a private and research university in 1873. It functions with Nashville in Tennessee state as its headquarters. Its campus is spread across 330 acres. According to US News and World Report the university ranked number eight in the list of best undergraduate teaching schools. It ranked number two in the US News and World Report among Graduate Schools of Education. It ranked number one in the Princeton Review list of Colleges with happiest students. It ranked number 15 in the Kiplinger’s Best Values in Private Colleges.
Tennessee Technological University was founded 1915 as a public university. The university, headquartered in Crooksville in Tennessee state, is located on a sprawling 235-acre campus. The university found place in the US News and World Report’s best colleges in South East for 10 years in a row.
Memphis University is one of the universities having the largest campuses. It was recognised as public research university. The university has been offering master’s and doctoral programmes through colleges and schools under its purview. This university is one of the great metropolitan research university.
The Christian Brothers’ University is one of the ancient and best universities in the country. The university run by Roman Catholic Christian Brothers is headquartered in Memphis city. The university was founded in 1871 and has a sprawling campus of 75 acres. It was adjudged as one of the best southern universities in the USA and figured in the US New and World Reports list of Best Colleges in the USA.
Clemson University was founded in 1889 as a public, co-education and research university. It has 1,1400-acre campus at the foot of the Blue Ritz mountains. The university is headquartered in Clemson city of South Carolina State. The university ranked 21 in the list of National best public universities compiled by the US News and World Report.
The University of South Carolina earned reputation as the seat of highest research activity. The university occupied the first two positions for about 13 years in offering undergraduate international programmes. It was founded in 1801 as a public, coeducational, research university. The university which functions with Columbia as its headquarters is spread across a 359 acre campus.
The FloridA university was founded in 1851 as a public, co-educational research university. The university, headquartered in Tallahassee, is spread on a 1391-acre campus. It is a member of the State university system of Florida. Florida State University is one of the most ancient universities in the state of Florida. The university ranked 96 among the best universities in the southern region of the USA.
The Florida A and M University is a public, co-education, research university. It was founded in 1887. The university headquartered in Tallahassee has a 419-acre campus. It has satellite campuses at Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville and Tambala. The university has membership in State University System of Florida. It is one of the biggest universities for historically black coloured. The university got Tier-2 position among the Best Colleges and Regional Universities for 2016 category in a study conducted by the US News and World Report.
University of North Florida was founded as a public and co-educational university. It was established in 1972 with Jacksonville as headquarters in Florida State. Its campus was spread on 1381 acres. The university be- longed to the State University System of Florida. US News and World Report’s Best Colleges and Regional Universities 2016th edition gave the university 50th rank.
The University founded in 1853 was public, co-educational and research university. The university, with its headquarters in North-Central Florida, has a 2000 acre sprawling campus. It is a member of the State University System of Florida. It is one of the oldest universities of Florida. The US News and World Report’s 2016th edition of Best Colleges and Regional Universities gave the university the 47th rank. The university was classified by Carnegie Foundation as the research university with high research activity.
The university of Central Florida was founded in 1963. It was founded as a public, co-educational and metropolitan research university. The university headquartered in Orland has a sprawling 1415-acre campus. The university has campuses at Cocoa, Daytona Beach, Leesburg, Ocala, Palm Bay, Sanford, South Lake and Valencia and is a member of State University System of Florida. It emerged as one of the top universities in the USA.
The University of South Florida was founded in 1956. It is a public coeducation university. Functioning with Tampa in Florida as the headquarters, it is nestled on a sprawling campus of 1562 acres. The university has campuses in Sarasota, Fort Myers and St Petersburg. It is the fourth largest public university in the state of Florida. The university is a member of the State university system of Florida. The university is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in the top tier of research universities.
New Mexico State University sits on a 900-acre campus and enrolls more than 15,000 students from 49 states and 89 foreign countries. NMSU is a NASA Space Grant College and is home to the very first Honors College in New Mexico. A His- panic-serving institution, NMSU serves a multi-cultural population of students and community members across the state at five campuses, a satellite learning center in Albuquerque, cooperative extension offices located in each of New Mexico's 33 counties, and 12 agriculture research and science centers. Plus, distance education programs give students maximum flexibility.
The government closed the South Florida Polytechnic Campus in 2012 and replaced it with Florida Polytechnic University. The University of South Florida established Under the purview of the university, there are College of Engineering and College of Innovation and Technology. The university is offering six bachelor’s, two master’s and 19 concentration programmes.
The university, which was founded in 1965, was a public and coeducational and metropolitan university. Headquartered in Greater Miami of the Florida State, it has a 344-acre campus. The university is a member of the State University System of Florida. It is the fourth largest university in the country. Florida International University is classified as a research university with highest research activity by the Carnegie Foundation. The US News and World Reports Best Colleges and Regional Universities edition, the university was given Tier-2 status.
The university which was founded in 1964 as public, co-educational and research university is headquartered in Boca Raton and has a campus of 850 acres. It has satellite campuses at Dania Beach, Davie Fort Lauderdale, Harbor Branch, Jupiter and Port Pierce. The university is a member of State University System of Florida.
The university was founded in 1906. It is one of the top most universities in the country. The university headquartered in Statesboro is a member of the University System of Georgia. Among the members, it is the fifth largest university. Its campus is spread over 900 acres. The students of the university are from several counties in the state of Georgia, 47 states of the USA and over 100 countries in the globe.
North Carolina State University is a public, co-educational and research university. The university, headquartered in Raleigh is spread over 2090- acre campus. The university is a member of the North Carolina State University System. The university is renowned as one of the top research facilities in the country. The university got land, sea and space grants from the government. It has the highest number of students in North Carolina.
The institution became the East Alabama Male College in 1856 after 20 years of it coming into being. The school became the first land-grant college as per the Merrill Act of 1872. Consequently, its name has been changed to Agriculture and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1899, its name has been changed to Alabama Polytechnic Institute. In 1960, it was finally changed to the present name of Auburn University.
The university was founded in 1913. It is one of the most prominent research universities in the country. It is a member of University System of Georgia. It is one of the top 100 universities that awards doctorate degrees to students. The background of students enrolled in the university will be different. Easy schedules, day, evening and part-time classes convenient to the students are some of the features of the university.
The university was founded in 1951 as a public, co-educational research university. It is head quartered in Huntsville and has a sprawling 432 acre campus. The university, which is a member of the University of Alabama system, has 16 research centers. The Carnegie Foundation described the university as the one of the universities devoted to research and that has the highest quantum of research activities.
In 1875, the university was founded as public, co-educational and Research University. The university with functions with Normal as headquarters has over 2000-acre campus. It is one of the largest historically black institutes. It received land grants from government. It has membership in Thurgud Marshall College Fund System. The US News and World Report gave the university Tier-2 status in the 2016th edition of Best Colleges in Regional Universities (South).
The college has been offering six degrees through its 85 programmes. There are several online programmes for undergraduates and graduates. The college has been offering five bachelor’s degrees, four master’s degrees and a doctoral degree. The school is offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the field of medicine.
It was established as a private and research university in the North Carolina State in 1828 with Durham as its nucleus. It has campus spread over 8600 acres. It is ranked number seven among the wealthy private universities in the USA. It also ranked number seven among the universities that spend more on research.
The institution which was founded in 1946 as a public, coeducational and research university with its headquarters in Charlotte has a campus spread over 1000 acres. It is a member of University of North Carolina system. Among the members, it is the second largest institution. It is one of the most popular research universities. The US News and World Report gave 194th rank in the list of best colleges in national universities for the year 2016.
University of Tampa is one of the few universities that figured in the Forbes’ rankings for some years in a row. In the researchers through offering different kinds of services. High school graduates who have not studied in any school or college will be regarded as freshmen and will be encouraged to apply for admission.
I am writing this letter to express my sincere appreciation to
Dr. Kumar Annavarapu. I was interviewed by Dr. Kumar, Senior Journalist, Hyderabad,
India, as part of the American Educational Project, which has the goal of
providing an accurate transparent picture to students
from India who are interested in pursuing higher studies in the US.
Viney P. Aneja, NC State University, Raleigh