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Texas A&M University
Texas A&M, founded in 1876 as the state's first public institution of higher education, operates the Corps of Cadets, one of the largest uniformed student bodies outside the US service academies, a tradition dating back to the university's origins as a military and agricultural college under the Morrill Land-Grant Act. The university's distinctive traditions — including Silver Taps, a solemn campus-wide ceremony honoring students who've died, and the "12th Man" tradition, where the student body stands throughout football games as a sign of readiness to support the team — give A&M a campus culture built around communal identity and school spirit that's frequently cited as among the strongest of any large public university. A&M's enrollment of more than 70,000 students makes it one of the largest universities in the country by a wide margin, and its engineering, agriculture, and veterinary medicine programs are consistently ranked among the best in their fields nationally, reflecting the school's land-grant mission of applied, practical research. The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is located on A&M's campus, a reflection of the university's close historical ties to Texas's political establishment, and its massive, deeply loyal alumni network — the "Aggie Network" — is frequently cited as one of the most active and career-supportive in American higher education.
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Rice University
Rice University was founded through the 1912 endowment of cotton and lumber magnate William Marsh Rice, whose murder by his own lawyer and butler in a scheme to seize his fortune became one of the most notorious criminal cases of its era before the estate was ultimately secured for the university he'd intended to fund. Rice's tuition-free policy lasted for more than five decades, a founding commitment that helped the small university build a reputation for academic rigor without the financial exclusivity of many peer institutions, before rising costs eventually forced the school to begin charging tuition in the 1960s. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice Stadium in 1962, a moment that reflected the university's close relationship with the nearby NASA Johnson Space Center — a connection that continues to shape Rice's engineering and space science programs today. With one of the smallest undergraduate enrollments among the country's top research universities, fewer than 4,500 students, and a widely cited "residential college" system that groups students into small, tight-knit communities from freshman year on, Rice consistently ranks as the most academically prestigious university in Texas.
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