About UTRGV

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 as the first major public university of the 21st century in Texas. This transformative initiative provided the opportunity to expand educational opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley, including a new School of Medicine, and made it possible for residents of the region to benefit from the Permanent University Fund – a public endowment contributing support to the University of Texas System and other institutions.

UTRGV has campuses and off-campus research and teaching sites throughout the Rio Grande Valley including in Boca Chica Beach, Brownsville (formerly The University of Texas at Brownsville campus), Edinburg (formerly The University of Texas-Pan American campus), Harlingen, Port Isabel, Rio Grande City, and South Padre Island. UTRGV, a comprehensive academic institution, enrolled its first class in the fall of 2015, and the School of Medicine welcomed its first class in the summer of 2016.

• The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is the official name of the university.
• The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley should always be used in first reference in all formal communications. "The" is part of the name and should always be included, uppercase, in first reference. Second reference of the university name will be abbreviated as UTRGV. Do not use hyphens in the university name e.g., UT-RGV.
• The official university name in Spanish is La Universidad de Texas de El Valle del Río Grande.

Official names of distributed campuses and sites across the Rio Grande Valley. UTRGV is a distributed institution with campuses and sites located throughout the Rio Grande Valley. When referencing a specific UTRGV campus or site, use the official names below.

Campuses

• The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg Campus
• UTRGV Edinburg Campus
• The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Brownsville Campus
• UTRGV Brownsville Campus

Additional Sites

• UTRGV Harlingen Clinical Education Site
• UTRGV McAllen
• UTRGV Port Isabel School of Earth, Environmental and Marine Sciences
• UTRGV Rio Grande City
• UTRGV SPI Coastal Studies Lab
• UTRGV Stargate
• UTRGV Weslaco Center for Innovation and Commercialization (CIC)

To build recognition in the overall UTRGV brand, the university has a set of official taglines. These are the official taglines that must be used across the University:

As a distributed campus, UTRGV is spread across the Rio Grande Valley. However, only three main addresses will be used at this time. They include:

Mail services use these three main addresses to distribute mail to the entire university community.

If an office requires a different address than the ones listed above, contact University Marketing and Communications.