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Austin College

Motto	Nil nisi per aspera
Type	Private liberal arts college
Established	1849
Affiliation	Presbyterian
Endowment	$133 million
President	Dr. Marjorie Hass
Administrative staff	104
Undergraduates	1,208
Postgraduates	16
Location	Sherman, Texas, U.S.
Campus	Suburban, 70 acres (28 ha)
Colors	Crimson & Gold
Athletics	NCAA Division III – SCAC Will compete in the Southern Athletic Association for football beginning in 2017
Nickname	Kangaroos, The Fighting 'Roos
Mascot	Kangaroo
Affiliations	Oberlin Group Annapolis Group CIC APCU
Website	www.austincollege.edu

Austin College is a private liberal arts college affiliated by covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and located in Sherman, Texas, about 60 miles (about 100 km) north of Dallas.

Austin College was profiled in all three editions of renowned education writer and editor Loren Pope's book Colleges That Change Lives, which distinguishes schools having two essential elements: "A familial sense of communal enterprise that gets students heavily involved in cooperative rather than competitive learning, and a faculty of scholars devoted to helping young people develop their powers, mentors who often become their valued friends."

The undergraduate student body of Austin College is about 1,300. Students are required to live on campus for the first three years of their education in order to foster a close-knit and community oriented campus lifestyle. Austin College actively promotes study abroad programs; 70% of graduates have at least one international study experience during college, and about 82% of students are involved in research. The college cultivates close interaction between students and professors via a 12:1 student to faculty ratio and an average class size of fewer than 25 students. The college has no teaching assistants, so regular faculty teach all levels of coursework.

Chartered in November 1849, Austin College remains the oldest institution of higher education in Texas to be operating under its original charter and name as recognized by the State Historical Survey Committee.

The college was founded on October 13, 1849, in Huntsville, Texas, by the Hampden–Sydney and Princeton-educated missionary Dr. Daniel Baker. Signed by Texas Governor George Wood, the charter of Austin College was modeled after those of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.