Texas universities

This week Texas students can submit applications to public colleges and universities statewide without paying application fees.

A federal appeals court will consider whether restrictions on protests at Texas’ public universities and colleges violate constitutional rights.

More than 200 courses, including those on LGBTQ literature, cultural studies and climate change, will no longer count toward core degree requirements at 11 Texas A&M universities.

The state’s higher education agency recommends Texas lawmakers revamp funding for public universities that rewards schools for student success.

College borrowers in default have ballooned to a national record 9.2 million – up by 4.2 million since April 2025. In Texas, 878,000 are in default, the most of any state.

For more than two decades, the Texas Dream Act allowed certain students without legal status to qualify for in-state tuition. The law was abruptly overturned last year.

Faculty groups say the Texas Tech University System's new curriculum policies are unconstitutional and unlawfully restrict classroom instruction on race, gender identity and sexual orientation. But university leaders have called the changes "common sense."

Allegations filed in the first five months of the new ombudsman's work challenged course content, DEI, academic freedom and employment disputes.

The governor said undergraduate tuition and fees should stay frozen after some public university systems weighed increases.

Even as policymakers and athletic administrators say the new era of student-athlete compensation has thrown a wrench into college sports, it's hard to get information about how much public universities are paying their players.