Better For Texas

Texas State Technical College’s (TSTC) legislatively mandated mission makes the College unlike the rest of the two-year colleges in Texas. TSTC’s focus is workforce employability.

All About Placement

The College maintains high placement rates by working hand in hand with Texas industries to ensure its programs align with their workforce needs. TSTC’s sole purpose is student employment success and, as Texas’ only statewide two-year college system, we are the “Get-a-Job College.”

Funding Through Accountability

TSTC is the only college in Texas that operates on a 100% outcomes-based funding formula. With its “Returned-Value Funding Formula,” the College is not funded on contact hours, but rather on the employment outcomes realized by our students. The College relies on the placement of its graduates in great-paying jobs to receive funding from the State.

TSTC utilizes its impressive and growing list of industry partners to keep its training relevant to the increasing workforce demands. Many of these industry partners sit on advisory boards to ensure that all technical training aligns with current industry standards.

The College’s close relationship with industry helps it decide what programs are needed and what programs are no longer viable. TSTC has grown in some programmatic offerings while sunsetting others. This keeps TSTC accountable not only to students and industry, but also to the State. TSTC maintains fiscal responsibility with state appropriations by only teaching programs that lead to great-paying jobs, not just to a degree.

• Texas State Technical College System is a coeducational two-year institution of higher education offering courses of study in technical vocational education for which there is demand within the State of Texas. Texas State Technical College System shall contribute to the educational and economic development of the State of Texas by offering occupationally oriented programs with supporting academic course work, emphasizing highly specialized advanced and emerging technical and vocational areas for certificates or associate degrees.
• The Texas State Technical College System is authorized to serve the State of Texas through excellence in instruction, public service, faculty and manpower research, and economic development. The system’s economic development efforts to improve the competitiveness of Texas business and industry include exemplary centers of excellence in technical program clusters on the system’s campuses and support of educational research commercialization initiatives.
• Through close collaboration with business, industry, governmental agencies, and communities, including public and private secondary and post-secondary educational institutions, the system shall facilitate and deliver an articulated and responsive technical education system. In developing and offering highly specialized technical programs with related supportive coursework, primary consideration shall be placed on the industrial and technological manpower needs of the state. The emphasis of each Texas State Technical College System campus shall be on advanced or emerging technical programs not commonly offered by public junior colleges.