The College of Sciences at Angelo State University is a unit of the Texas Tech University System

Texas Tech University System

The Texas Tech University System consists of three universities, Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and Angelo State University. Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University HSC together operate thirteen campuses, eleven of which are located in Texas. The...

 located in San Angelo, Texas

San Angelo, Texas

San Angelo is a city in the state of Texas. Located in West Central Texas it is the county seat of Tom Green County. As of 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total population of 93,200...

. The College consists of six academic departments offering 20 undergraduate and 3 graduate degree's. The college offers opportunities for undergraduate research and has the highest per-capita Medical School placement rate of any public institution in Texas. Angelo State University is a member institution of the Texas Space Grant Consortium; part of the NASA space-grant university system. The Computer Science program is listed in the Princeton Review as one of the Top 50 Game Design programs in North America. The Physics Department is ranked as one of the top 20 undergraduate programs in the nation by Physics Today.

Natural History Collection

The Natural History Collection was founded in 1960 by Drs. Wilmot A. Thornton and Gordon C. Creel. The collection is now one of the largest in the state including over 11,000 specimens.

MIR Center

The Management Instruction and Research Center

Angelo State University Management Instruction and Research Center

The Angelo State University Management Instruction and Research center was founded in 1975. It is an Agriculture Research Center that concentrates primarily on areas of research involving sheep, goat, and cattle production; range management and improvement and wildlife management. The center...

 is a 6000 acres (24.3 km²) ranch consisting of range and farmland that serves as a teaching and research facility for Angelo State University students and faculty. Current research concentrates on range research, wildlife research, beef cattle research, ruminant nutrition research, sheep and goat research, and food science and meat safety research.

Planetarium

The Planetarium at Angelo State University is one of the largest in Texas and one of the largest on a university campus throughout the United States. It includes a 50 feet (15.2 m) dome and seats over 110. It is located inside the Vincent building. In 2010 it was converted to a Sci-Dome HD system allowing 360 degree projection of any digital content. It presents many public shows throughout the year. Over 10,000 local students from local schools visit the campus planetarium each year.

Academic departments

• Agriculture
  Agriculture
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• Biology
  Biology
  Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
  
  
• Chemistry
  Chemistry
  Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
  
   and Biochemistry
  Biochemistry
  Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...
  
  
• Computer Science
  Computer science
  Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
  
  
• Mathematics
  Mathematics
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• Physics
  Physics
  Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
  
  

Undergraduate programs

• Agricultural Science and Leadership with Teacher Certification
• Animal Science
• Animal Business
• Biology
• Biochemistry
• Chemistry
• Clinical Laboratory Science
• Computer Science
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Food Animal Science and Marketing
• Geoscience
• Mathematics
• Mathematics with Teacher Certification
• Natural Resource Management
• Physics
• Pre-Veterinary Medicine

Cooperative programs

• Animal Science and Agricultural Education, Texas A&M
  Texas A&M University
  Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
  
  
• Animal Science and Interdisciplinary Education, Texas Tech
  Texas Tech University
  Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the...