Texas A&M University-San Antonio is one of the youngest public universities in the state, built on the city's South Side after decades of lobbying for a four-year school there. It became a standalone university in 2009, and its architects set out to echo the Spanish missions, stone ranch houses, and talavera tile of old San Antonio. This short walk visits the campus's first building, the domed academic hall that anchors the esplanade, and a mission-style home for student veterans.
About this site
Texas A&M University–San Antonio is a public college or university in San Antonio, Bexar County. It is one of 17 degree-granting colleges and universities TexasRoam maps in Bexar County.
The site sits at 29.3049, -98.5242 near San Antonio. The nearest cataloged historic site is Loma China (cemetery), about 0.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include Herritage Family Cemetery, Mitchell-Mauermann Cemetery, and Palo Alto College.
Texas A&M University–San Antonio traces its start to 2000, when a Texas A&M–Kingsville system center began offering junior- and senior-level courses from space on the Palo Alto College campus, aimed at San Antonio's South Side, where access to a four-year public university had long been thin. State Sen. Frank Madla championed the idea in the Legislature, and the center started small, with 126 students and seven degree programs. A developer, Verano Land Group, donated roughly 694 acres near Loop 410 and Zarzamora Street for a permanent campus, and in 2009 Senate Bill 629 made the school a stand-alone member of the Texas A&M University System. Its first building, named for Senator Madla, was completed in the summer of 2011, and the four-story Central Academic Building, with design elements drawn from a cathedral in Granada, Spain, opened in 2014 as the campus centerpiece beside a main quad that also includes Patriots' Casa. Also in 2014, the university earned its own accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, ending its tie to Texas A&M–Kingsville. It enrolled its first freshman class, about 557 students, in fall 2016, opened its first residence hall the next year, and joined the NAIA's Red River Athletic Conference in 2020. Many of its students are the first in their families to attend college, and enrollment passed 7,500 by fall 2023.
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