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Texas Christian University
Texas Christian University, founded in 1873 by brothers Addison and Randolph Clark, has grown from a small Fort Worth college into one of the state's most recognized private universities, with a business school — the Neeley School of Business — that draws heavily on the Dallas-Fort Worth area's corporate and finance job market. TCU's Horned Frogs football program's 2010 undefeated season and Rose Bowl win, followed by a run to the 2022 College Football Playoff national championship game, brought the university a level of national athletic visibility that had historically eluded it relative to the state's larger public programs. The university's relatively small enrollment, around 12,000 students, lets it offer smaller class sizes and more individualized attention than Texas's massive public flagships, a trade-off the school markets directly to prospective students weighing TCU against bigger, less personal in-state alternatives. TCU's historical affiliation with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) gives it a faith-rooted identity similar to Baylor's, though generally described as less doctrinally strict, and its combination of a growing academic reputation and recent athletic success has made it one of the fastest-rising private universities in the state.
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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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