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Prairie View A&M annually awards the second most STEM degrees in the Texas A&M University System. [23] Prairie View A&M academic programs are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and each college within the university holds additional accreditation or certifications. [24]
This is a list of land-grant colleges and universities in the United States of America and its associated territories. [1]Land-grant institutions are often categorized as 1862, 1890, and 1994 institutions, based on the date of the legislation that designated most of them with land-grant status.
Prairie View A&M, also established in 1876, is an HBCU. The A&M System, like all schools in Texas was racially segregated by state law, from its founding until the 1960s. [ 6 ] Many of the member universities and agencies joined the A&M System decades after being established.
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SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Prairie View A & M University (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010).Read our methodology here.. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014.
East Texas A&M University: 1889 11,500 140 $33.2 D/PU: Doctoral/Professional Universities Prairie View A&M University 1876 9,415 1,502 $148.5 R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity Tarleton State University: 1899 14,513 1,973 $26 R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity Texas A&M International University: 1969 8,256 300
Prairie View A&M grants both graduate and undergraduate degrees in more than 50 majors and is classified as a Doctoral/Research University by the Carnegie Foundation. As of fall 2022, Prairie View A&M is the largest HBCU in the state and one of the largest in the country with nearly 9,500 students, approximately 83% Black/African-American. [11]
The first football coach at Prairie View was Henry B. Hucles, who began in 1924. Before Hucles's arrival at Prairie View, the school played two games without a coach on record: a 1907 7–0 win against a team from Wylie, Texas [3] and a 1920 7–6 loss to Tuskegee University. [4] Prairie View's most recognized and celebrated coach was Billy Nicks.