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Texas College

School colors: Purple and gold

Texas College Tyler Texas
Larry D. Moore, Taken on 22 June 2019, 19:32:56, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Tyler, Texas · Founded 1894 · Steer

Private · Four-year · ~640 students

www.texascollege.edu · official site

Founding

Texas College was founded in 1894 by a group of ministers of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, now the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, to educate a disenfranchised population in East Texas. Its charter issued July 1, 1907, established the corporation's name as Texas College under the ownership of the CME Church.

Source: History, Texas College, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

Mascot
SteerSource, read 2026-09-17.
Motto
Give the People Light and They Will Find Their WaySource, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
2404 N. Grand Avenue, Tyler, TX 75702
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~640 students
Directory id
228884
OPE id
00363800
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
2404 N. Grand Avenue, Tyler, TX. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes fromCampus location from IPEDS 2024-25This campus location comes from the federal IPEDS 2024-25 record, used as published, so the pin on the map is the campus.IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 collection, file dated 2025-09-21, retrieved 2026-09-14: coordinate 32.37456, -95.312454 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder also matched this address exactly on 2026-09-14.

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Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 228884. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. History, Texas College. https://www.texascollege.edu/about-brtexas-college/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Quick Facts, Texas College. https://www.texascollege.edu/about-brtexas-college/quick-facts/. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 644 total, Fall 2023 (644 undergraduate, 0 graduate). IPEDS Fall Enrollment 2023, derived variables (DRVEF2023). https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/DRVEF2023.zip. File dated 2024-09-30, read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Purple and gold. Values as stated. Texas College, Wikipedia (revision 1373797393). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Larry D. Moore, Taken on 22 June 2019, 19:32:56, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Texas_College_Tyler_Texas_2019.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  8. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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