College of Business Texarkana Market Analysis Project
TAMU-T Contacts
The mission of the College of Business is to provide academic excellence through faculty commitment to the students and the region while developing the business leaders of tomorrow.
Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, AR are growing in size, population, and economic strength at a pace neither city has experienced in their histories. Projects such as a new Interstate configuration for Interstate 30, a new campus for Texas A&M University at Texarkana, continued progress on Interstate 49, and numerous construction projects in retail and other commercial endeavors contribute to the economic strength and growth in Texarkana. The community sees new construction and expansion, but without quantitative analysis of specific economic data, a measure of the economic status of the area is anecdotal and speculative. In addition to the general economic conditions such as employment, wages, income, and gross state product, the real estate market is a major element of the Texarkana area economy.
In order to properly quantify the current state of the economy in this region, the College of Business at Texarkana A&M University - Texarkana has started an independent study that gathers economic and real estate data for the Texarkana core based statistical area (CBSA). Metropolitan statistical areas are geographic entities defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for use by Federal statistical agencies in collecting, tabulating, and publishing Federal statistics.
The term "Core Based Statistical Area" (CBSA) is a collective term for both metro and micro areas. A metro area contains a core urban area of 50,000 or more population, and a micro area contains an urban core of at least 10,000 (but less than 50,000) population. Each metro or micro area consists of one or more counties and includes the counties containing the core urban area, as well as any adjacent counties that have a high degree of social and economic integration (as measured by commuting to work) with the urban core. The Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas cities are grouped into a single CBSA which includes Miller and Bowie Counties. The scope of this study will be confined to the Texarkana CBSA.
Texas A&M University-Texarkana formerly East Texas State University at Texarkana was established by the Texas Legislature in 1971 as an upper level, operationally separate unit of the East Texas University Complex. In September 1996 the university became a member of The Texas A&M University System and is governed by The Texas A&M University Board of Regents. Like other Texas public colleges and universities, A&M-Texarkana also operates under the jurisdiction of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Located on the border of Texas and Arkansas, A&M-Texarkana is an upper level university serving junior, senior and graduate students - and proudly providing the citizens of Northeast Texas and three neighboring states a convenient opportunity to earn a four year or graduate degree.
The university's 56 full-time faculty members emphasize teaching and advising. Eighty-nine percent of A&M-Texarkana's faculty hold a doctoral degree in their field of instruction. The teacher to student ratio is 1 to 14, with an enrollment of 1,549 students. The average student age is 33. Each semester, approximately 75 percent of students are female and 70 percent are enrolled part-time. Students in Oklahoma and Arkansas attend at in-state tuition rates, and, historically, 30 percent of the student body is from Arkansas.
R. Edward Bashaw
Dean
College of Business
Phone: (903) 223-3106
Email: edward.bashaw@tamut.edu
David Reavis
Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems
Director - Texarkana Market Analysis Project
College of Business
Phone: (903) 223-3190
Email: david.reavis@tamut.edu
The mission of the College of Business is to provide academic excellence through faculty commitment to the students and the region while developing the business leaders of tomorrow.
Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, AR are growing in size, population, and economic strength at a pace neither city has experienced in their histories. Projects such as a new Interstate configuration for Interstate 30, a new campus for Texas A&M University at Texarkana, continued progress on Interstate 49, and numerous construction projects in retail and other commercial endeavors contribute to the economic strength and growth in Texarkana. The community sees new construction and expansion, but without quantitative analysis of specific economic data, a measure of the economic status of the area is anecdotal and speculative. In addition to the general economic conditions such as employment, wages, income, and gross state product, the real estate market is a major element of the Texarkana area economy.
In order to properly quantify the current state of the economy in this region, the College of Business at Texarkana A&M University - Texarkana has started an independent study that gathers economic and real estate data for the Texarkana core based statistical area (CBSA). Metropolitan statistical areas are geographic entities defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for use by Federal statistical agencies in collecting, tabulating, and publishing Federal statistics.
The term "Core Based Statistical Area" (CBSA) is a collective term for both metro and micro areas. A metro area contains a core urban area of 50,000 or more population, and a micro area contains an urban core of at least 10,000 (but less than 50,000) population. Each metro or micro area consists of one or more counties and includes the counties containing the core urban area, as well as any adjacent counties that have a high degree of social and economic integration (as measured by commuting to work) with the urban core. The Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas cities are grouped into a single CBSA which includes Miller and Bowie Counties. The scope of this study will be confined to the Texarkana CBSA.
Texas A&M University-Texarkana formerly East Texas State University at Texarkana was established by the Texas Legislature in 1971 as an upper level, operationally separate unit of the East Texas University Complex. In September 1996 the university became a member of The Texas A&M University System and is governed by The Texas A&M University Board of Regents. Like other Texas public colleges and universities, A&M-Texarkana also operates under the jurisdiction of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Located on the border of Texas and Arkansas, A&M-Texarkana is an upper level university serving junior, senior and graduate students - and proudly providing the citizens of Northeast Texas and three neighboring states a convenient opportunity to earn a four year or graduate degree.
The university's 56 full-time faculty members emphasize teaching and advising. Eighty-nine percent of A&M-Texarkana's faculty hold a doctoral degree in their field of instruction. The teacher to student ratio is 1 to 14, with an enrollment of 1,549 students. The average student age is 33. Each semester, approximately 75 percent of students are female and 70 percent are enrolled part-time. Students in Oklahoma and Arkansas attend at in-state tuition rates, and, historically, 30 percent of the student body is from Arkansas.
R. Edward BashawDean
College of Business
Phone: (903) 223-3106
Email: edward.bashaw@tamut.edu
David ReavisAssistant Professor of Management Information Systems
Director - Texarkana Market Analysis Project
College of Business
Phone: (903) 223-3190
Email: david.reavis@tamut.edu