About South Texas College

South Texas College (STC) is a public community school in the Rio Grande Valley region of South Texas. It is accredited by the Commission upon Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to tribute Bachelor of Applied Technology, Associate of Applied Science, Associate of Arts, and Associate of Science degrees. STC has an enrollment of approximately 31,000 students and a staff of 1,600 in action across six campuses. It was created on September 1, 1993 subsequently the passage of Texas Senate Bill 251, the take aim of which was to utility Hidalgo and Starr County.

As defined by the Texas Legislature, the approved service area of STC includes all of Hidalgo and Starr Counties.

McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, and the 22nd-most populous city in Texas. It is located at the southern tip of the give access in the Rio Grande Valley, close to the country of Mexico. The city limits extend south to the Rio Grande, across from the Mexican city of Reynosa. McAllen is nearly 70 mi (110 km) west of the Gulf of Mexico. As of 2019, McAllen’s population was estimated to be 143,268. It is the fifth-most populous metropolitan area (McAllen–Edinburg–Mission) in the declare of Texas, and the binational Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan area counts a population of nearly 1.52 million.

From its treaty in 1904, the area around McAllen was largely rural and agricultural in character, but the latter half of the 20th century had steady growth, which has continued in the 21st century in the metropolitan area. The opening of the maquiladora economy and the North American Free Trade Association led to an growth in cross-border trading subsequent to Mexico.