Students walking across the Texas State University campus may not realize that some of the landmarks they encounter today are nearly as new to campus as the students themselves.
The majority of TXST architectural icons—such as Old Main (1903), UFCU Stadium (1981), and Alkek Library (1990)—have been around for decades, but several prominent buildings have taken shape since the adoption of the university’s previous master plan in 2017.
The 2025–2035 Campus Master Plan is the ninth in a series of facilities master plans going back to 1944. As with previous plans, TXST officials are determined to carry out the projects laid out in the new plan to support the university’s student population growth and its ambitions as a top-tier research university.
“We accomplish an amazing amount of the work that we lay out in these plans,” notes Eric Algoe, TXST’s executive vice president for operations and chief financial officer. “The master plan is not just a book that sits on a shelf. We actually use these documents.”
Indeed, the San Marcos Campus has grown since the university’s 1899 founding from 11 acres to 647 total acres. And in the nine years since the adoption of the 2017–2027 Master Plan, Texas State’s student population has grown from 37,000 students to more than 44,000 students.
Since the development of the 2017 plan, new construction projects on the San Marcos Campus have included several major buildings:
