When Texas A&M University’s new satellite building opens this fall, it will begin the next phase of a massive expansion that A&M is taking on in this North Texas city.
Texas A&M University’s massive, eight-story Law and Education Building is on track to open in August. It will become the first building of a planned Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus that could transform the southeast side of Fort Worth’s sleepy downtown that has been home to parking lots. Fort Worth and Texas A&M leaders topped off the Law and Education Building in November of 2024, and when it opens this fall, it will serve a wide array of programs.
The Texas A&M School of Law, long located nearby on Commerce Street near the Fort Worth Convention Center, will relocate to the Law and Education Building when it opens in 2026. But besides those programs, the new Fort Worth outpost will offer undergraduate engineering degrees as well as bachelor’s degrees in visualization from the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts. As the Fort Worth Report notes, students in visualization and animation already train with Fort Worth video game studio ProbablyMonsters, the Washington-state headquartered company that Texas A&M-Fort Worth helped bring to the city. Master’s degrees in those programs are expected in future semesters.
Besides visualization and law, Texas A&M-Fort Worth will offer courses in executive education and short-term business classes with plans to offer master’s degrees in business administration in future semesters, according to the Fort Worth Report.
Tarleton State University, part of the Texas A&M University System, will occupy three floors of Texas A&M’s new Law and Education Building. TSU will offer health and STEM-focused classes there in the fall.
Tarleton students may make up the bulk of students studying at the fledgling Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus. But in the future, city and Texas A&M leaders have pitched a grander vision of Texas A&M-Fort Worth that would eventually see undergraduate students studying full-time in Fort Worth. While it may not rival Texas A&M’s flagship College Station campus, it will be a significant expansion of the university’s presence in another part of the state.
Texas A&M first began its Fort Worth expansion in 2013 when the Texas A&M University System purchased Texas Wesleyan’s law school. At the time, Texas Wesleyan was a middling law school outside of the national rankings. Since being rebranded into Texas A&M School of Law, the school has rapidly soared in national rankings. In its 2025–26 rankings, U.S. News and World Report ranked it the 22nd best law school in the nation. Now, Texas A&M-Fort Worth is setting its sights even bigger.
The Texas A&M Law and Education Building is scheduled to open in Fort Worth on Aug. 5, 2026.