also has a planetarium, an observatory, a body farm, and an 18-hole golf course, The Bearkat Course. The mall area of the main campus includes Blatchley Bell Tower and Clock and a fountain.
The campus stood in for the fictional Austin University in the motion picture The Life of David Gale.
== Academics ==
Sam Houston State's academic departments and programs are organized into nine colleges:
College of Business Administration
College of Criminal Justice
College of Education
College of Arts and Media
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
College of Science & Engineering Technology
College of Health Sciences
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Polytechnic College
Additionally, the university enrolls more than 350 high-achieving undergraduate students in the selective Elliott T. Bowers Honors College.
Programs within the College of Criminal Justice were recently ranked by the Journal of Criminal Justice in the top five nationally. The theater and dance programs were ranked by Dance Spectrum Magazine in the …
