Tex. Educ. Code § 79.03 · Chapter 79. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY
COURSES AND DEGREES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board may prescribe courses leading to customary degrees offered at leading American universities and medical schools as applicable and may award those degrees, including:
(1) bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees and their equivalents; and
(2) medical school degrees and other health science degrees.
(b) The board shall award degrees in the name of the university.
(c) A department, school, or degree program may not be instituted without the prior approval of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, except that the university may include any department or school or offer any degree program previously approved for The University of Texas--Pan American or The University of Texas at Brownsville or expressly authorized by this chapter or other law.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 726 (S.B. 24), Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2013.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.79.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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