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Prairie View A&M University, the first state supported College in Texas for African Americans, was established during the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War in 1876. The four-year senior college program began in 1919 and in 1937, a division of graduate studies was added. In 1973, the name of the institution was changed to Prairie View A&M University, and its status as an independent unit of the Texas A&M University System was confirmed.

Prairie View offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the following schools and colleges:

• College of Agriculture and Human Sciences
• Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Juvenile Justice and Psychology
• College of Business
• Roy G. Perry College of Engineering
• Whitlowe R. Green College of Education
• College of Nursing
• School of Architecture