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Prairie View A&M University: Academic Footprint

• National Center for Educational Statistics: College Navigator- PVAMU 

  Prairie View A & M University
  FM 1098 Road & University Drive, Prairie View, Texas 77446
  General information: (936) 261-3311
  Website: www.pvamu.edu
  Type: 4-year, Public
  Awards offered: Bachelor's degree
  Master's degree
  Doctor's degree - research/scholarship
  Campus setting: Town: Distant
  Campus housing: Yes
  Student population: 9,516 (8,524 undergraduate)
  Student-to-faculty ratio: 19 to 1

• NCES: PVAMU Snapshot PDF 

Prairie View A & M University
FM 1098 Road & University Drive, Prairie View, Texas 77446
General information: (936) 261-3311
Website: www.pvamu.edu
Type: 4-year, Public
Awards offered: Bachelor's degree
Master's degree
Doctor's degree - research/scholarship
Campus setting: Town: Distant
Campus housing: Yes
Student population: 9,516 (8,524 undergraduate)
Student-to-faculty ratio: 19 to 1

Establishment – 1876

Prairie View A&M University, the first state supported College in Texas for African Americans, was established during the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War. This was an historical period in which political and economic special interest groups were able to aggressively use the Federal Government to establish public policy, in an attempt to “alter or reshape the cultural milieu of the vanquished southern states”. The University had its beginnings in the Texas Constitution of 1876, which, in separate articles, established an “Agricultural and Mechanical College” and pledged that “Separate schools shall be provided for the white and colored children, and impartial provisions shall be made for both.” As a consequence of these constitutional provisions, the Fifteenth Legislature established “Alta Vista Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for Colored Youth” on August 14,1876.