BLINN BOARD APPROVES $68 MILLION GUARANTEED MAX PRICE FOR FIRST ACADEMIC BUILDING AT WALLER CAMPUS
The Blinn Board of Trustees on Thursday approved a guaranteed maximum price of $68 million to develop an academic building at Blinn College’s new Waller Campus.
enrollment figures districtwide, as shown during
Thursday's board of trustees meeting.
The facility will be the first building on the Waller Campus. It is planned as an approximately 82,000-square-foot, three-story structure that will include classrooms, laboratories, student support areas and administrative spaces that will serve as the foundation for future campus development.
In related action, trustees authorized the College to proceed with issuing and selling $55.5 million in Series 2026 revenue bonds. The bond proceeds will support construction of the academic building, with the remaining project costs coming from Blinn’s cash reserves. Blinn will also use its reserve to establish the bond reserve fund and pay the cost of issuing the bonds.
Construction is already underway on a 17,000-square-foot Waller Workforce and Technical Education Complex that will begin offering classes in the summer.
data broken down by campus, as shown during
Thursday's board of trustees meeting.
Blinn recently opened a new administration office at 31406 FM 2920, Suite B203 in Waller to assist students with applications, payments, academic advising and financial aid. A dedicated Registration Day event will be held at the administration office on Wednesday, January 7th from 9 a.m. to noon. Students can sign up at www.blinn.edu.
Other board business included the presentation of the fall 2025 enrollment report, given by Vice Chancellor for Student Services Dr. Becky McBride. Blinn’s certified fall enrollment came in at 18,362 students, a 1.5 percent increase from last fall.
Enrollment includes 4,666 students on the Bryan Campus, down 8.42 percent; 4,336 students on the RELLIS Campus, up 0.69 percent; 3,948 distance education students, down 0.2 percent; 2,986 high school dual credit students, up 17 percent; 2,235 Brenham Campus students, up 13.39 percent; 37 students on the Schulenburg Campus, down 46.37 percent; 23 students on the Sealy Campus, down 32.35 percent; and one Blinn student at Waller ISD facilities, down from two students last fall. The number of Waller Campus students does not include those who fall under distance education or those who are taking dual credit courses in Waller; Dr. McBride reported in September that there were over 300 dual credit students in Waller.