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Founded as Arlington College, a private school, in 1895, the future university became a state school, North Texas Agricultural College, in 1917. In 1965 it was transferred from the Texas A&M system to the University of Texas (UT) system and renamed the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). It now has the second largest student enrollment in the UT system and is the fifth largest public university in Texas. An aggressive building program during the tenure of president Wendell H. Nedderman between 1972 and 1992 expanded the historic four-block campus core between W. 1st, S. West, W 3rd, and S. Yeates streets in all directions. As on Abram Street (see AW2) in downtown Arlington several blocks north, it is the big-scaled, brick-faced, planar architecture of Brutalism that has shaped the campus, which sprawls over former town blocks to encompass 420 acres of buildings and parking lots.