University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) is a public research university with multiple campuses throughout the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas. It is the southernmost member of the University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 after the consolidation of the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College and the University of Texas–Pan American.[7]
Former names
Texas Southmost College (1930–1995)
Edinburg College (1932–1952)
Pan American College (1952–1971)
Pan American University (1971–1989)
Pan American University at Brownsville (1988–1989)
University of Texas Pan American (1989–2015)
University of Texas Pan American at Brownsville (1989–1991)
University of Texas at Brownsville (1991–2016)[1]
Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis (Latin)
"The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy"[2]
June 14, 2013 (as UTRGV)
$103.771 million (2020)[3]
Guy Bailey
Luis H. Zayas
1,239 (Fall 2015)[4]
1,338 (2015)[5]
32,419 (Fall 2021)[4]
27,124 (Fall 2021)[4]
5,073 (Fall 2021)[4]
Midsize City, 665 acres (2.69 km2)
The Rider
Orange
Gray[6]
NCAA Division I – WAC (FCS, starting in 2025)
In the fall of 2019 the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley enrolled 29,619 students, making it the ninth-largest university in the state of Texas and the fourth largest (student enrollment) academic institution in the University of Texas system. In 2018, UTRGV was also one of the largest universities in the U.S. to have a majority Hispanic student population; 89.2%[8] of its students are Hispanic, virtually all of them Mexican Americans.[9]
It is classified in 2020 among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".[10]
The university's property totals 550 acres. UTRGV owns 105 buildings; the properties include:
Students and employees with dependent children may live in the Village Apartments in the Edinburg Campus or the Casa Bella Apartments on the Brownsville campus.[19] The Village Apartments is zoned to[20] the following Edinburg CISD schools: De La Viña Elementary School,[21] B. L. Garza Middle School,[22] and Edinburg North High School.[23]
Academic rankings
458
227 (tie)
1201-1500
745 (tie)
