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Taxpayers. There's a fund in the state called the PUF, if you've been around in these threads it's been discussed before. It was set up way back in the 19th century and is part of the constitution since some Frenchfag had his nuts up in a bunch about education (pic related) but knew that Texasfags were poor as shit so they set aside a whole bunch of land to lease out and pay for the Texas University System. This is why aggiefags call University of Texas "tu", it used to be Texas University and A&M was a part of it. The technical school (A&M) got a third and the big school (Texas) got the rest. This has stayed the same after the two schools split.

Taco and Houston have been pissed about this for decades and recently managed to get a PUF of their own that is however much money. I think it's like 900 million or something split equally across the Texas State, Taco, and Houston systems and whoever else. Lamar (pic related's namesake that turned into a black school after the 70s, it actually used to be a good school back when your dad was a kid). Houston also has had a lot of rich Rice grads give them a lot of money over the years since that's where the minorities go. UTSA is part of University of Texas, so that's where they get their money.