TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

private, coeducational institution of higher education in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. It is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). It grants about 14 undergraduate degrees in more than 50 areas and about 13 graduate degrees in more than 30 fields, including research-oriented doctoral programs. Texas Christian comprises the AddRan College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Fine Arts and Communication, the School of Education, the Harris College of Nursing, the M.J. Neeley School of Business, and Brite Divinity School. Research units include the Institute of Behavioral Research and the Center for Remote Sensing. The Mary Couts Burnett Library is named after a major benefactor who donated much of the university's endowment in 1923. Enrollment is approximately 7,000. Ministers Addison and Randolph Clark taught classes in Fort Worth from 1869 until 1873, when they established AddRan Male and Female College on a hilltop in Thorp Spring. In 1893 the college became affiliated with the Christian Churches of Texas and was renamed AddRan Christian College. It moved to Waco in 1895 and was renamed Texas Christian University in 1902. It suffered a fire that destroyed its main building in 1910. The next year the university reopened in Fort Worth.