About University of Texas Pan American

The University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA) was a state academe located in Edinburg, Texas. Founded in 1927, it was a component institution of the University of Texas System. The academic world served the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas like baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees. The Carnegie Foundation classified UTPA as a “doctoral research university”. From the institution’s founding until it was multipart into the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), it grew from 200 students to beyond 20,000, making UTPA the 10th-largest college circles in Texas. The majority of these students were natives of the Rio Grande Valley. UTPA furthermore operated an Upper Level Studies Center in Rio Grande City, Starr County, Texas. On August 15, 2014, Dr. Havidan Rodriguez was appointed performing arts President of UTPA, the institution’s unqualified leader.

In 2015, UTRGV entered into operation next the blend of UTPA and UT–Brownsville, founded as an increase of then-Pan American University at Texas Southmost College. UTRGV along with created a new medical school.

On August 31, 2015, UTPA formally ceased operations to agree to the newly formed university, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Edinburg (/ˈɛdɪnbɜːrɡ/ ED-in-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 74,569 as of the 2010 census, and in 2019 the estimated population was 101,170, making it the second largest city in Hidalgo County, and the third largest city in the larger Rio Grande Valley region.

Edinburg is ration of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas.