SFA Quick Facts
Basics
- Location: Nacogdoches, Texas - 140 miles northeast of Houston, 180 miles southeast of Dallas
- Main campus size: 417.6 acres
- Affiliation: Public university governed by autonomous Board of Regents, appointed by the governor and approved by the Texas Legislature
- Enrollment: 12,954 (fall 2010)
Faculty
- Full-time instructional faculty: 524
- Professors and instructors with highest degree in their field: 85 percent
- Student-faculty ratio: 20 to 1
- Average class size: 26.3
Colleges
- Nelson Rusche College of Business
- James I. Perkins College of Education
- College of Fine Arts
- Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
- College of Liberal and Applied Arts
- College of Sciences and Mathematics
Academics
- Enrollment periods: Two 16-week semesters (fall and spring) and two 5 1/2-week summer terms per year
- Accrediting body: Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
- Programs offered: 83 undergraduate majors and more than 120 areas of study; 50 master's degrees, three doctoral programs
History
- Founded as: Teachers' college
- Chartered by Legislature: April 4, 1917 - put on hold because of World War I
- Funding legislation signed: 1921
- Nacogdoches selected as site: July 14, 1921
- First classes: September 18, 1923
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