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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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University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin, founded in 1883, is the flagship campus of the UT System and one of the largest research universities in the country, enrolling more than 50,000 students across a sprawling downtown Austin campus that puts it at the geographic and cultural center of one of America's fastest-growing cities. UT Austin's endowment is funded in significant part by the Permanent University Fund, a constitutionally established trust built on oil and gas royalties from state-owned land — a financing structure unique among American public universities that has given UT Austin resources rivaling many private institutions. The McCombs School of Business and Cockrell School of Engineering both rank among the top public-university programs in their fields nationally, and UT Austin's computer science department has become one of the country's leading producers of software engineering talent for both Austin's own growing tech sector and Silicon Valley. UT Austin's Longhorns athletic program, one of the most valuable in college sports, and its massive statewide alumni network give the university an outsized cultural and economic footprint across Texas that extends well beyond its academic reputation alone.
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