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Campus
The campus is located in San Marcos, a community of nearly 50,000 people about halfway between Austin and San Antonio on Interstate 35. Its location on the banks of the San Marcos River provides students with recreational and leisure activities, such as swimming and tubing, throughout the year. Texas State's campus today consists of a 457 acre main campus and 4777 acre more in recreational, instructional, farm and ranch land.

The university operates Sewell Park which is on the banks of the spring fed San Marcos River. The banks, part of land leased by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, were built up from the river bottom by university workers. Initially named Riverside Park, it was later renamed to Sewell Park in 1946 in honor of Dr. S.M. "Froggy" Sewell, a mathematics professor who helped form the park. On the campaign trail, Presidential hopeful Barack Obama made a stop at Sewell Park addressing a crowd of several thousand.

On campus food services are provided by external company Chartwells who, in addition to five dining halls, also provides options to franchised chains Chick-fil-A, Panda Express, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Einstein Bros. Bagels, and Freshens Smoothie Company. The on campus Chick-fil-A is the highest grossing location in the southwest United States.

Texas State formed an agreement with Wells Fargo to allow students to pair university identification cards with their checking accounts. While this option is not required, it is made convenient through several Wells Fargo locations on and near campus.

Old Main
Overlooking the campus and serving as a geographic landmark since 1903 is Old Main, a restored red-gabled Victorian Gothic building. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In more than a century of use the building has served many uses from being the university's administration building to an auditorium and chapel to now housing the offices for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as well as the College of Fine Arts. It is often seen as the trademark building for Texas State University, as it is the most highlighted and lit building on campus.

Alkek Library
The university's library was named, in 1991, for an alumnus who became an oilman, rancher, and philanthropist, Albert B. Alkek. The Albert B. Alkek Library serves as the main, central academic library supporting the Texas State University community. As a storehouse for United States and Texas government documents, the library receives a large number of government publications from the state and 60% of all federal publications. The mission of the library, as stated by University Officials, "is to help our patrons succeed by providing high quality library services and information in a variety of formats to support the university's teaching and research programs."

Among the Library's seven floors, students encounter 1.4 million printed texts, over 500,000 microfilm & audio-visual materials, 155,000 electronic books, 300 databases, 97,000 electronic journals, University Archives, and curriculum materials approved by the Texas Education Agency for primary and secondary schools. In addition to the vast amount of resources, the Library encompasses niche collections which are rare to the University. These holdings include The Witliff Collection housed on the Library's seventh floor, the King of the Hill archives, major work of significant writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Sam Shepard, and the Lonesome Dove collection.

Central campus
Just east of the library lies the Quad, a centrally located, tree-lined corridor which bears majority of Texas State's academic colleges. While walking to class, one may grab a bite to eat from CEO's Grill N Go, encounter a variety of student organization fundraisers, or attend campus activities including speeches and other various events.

Round Rock Higher Education Center
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/94/colleges-09_Texas-State-University-San-Marcos_94399.html #477 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.26.208.127 (talk) 00:57, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/san-marcos-tx/texas-state-university-3615 #38 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.26.208.127 (talk) 01:01, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

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