Interesting Facts about Fort Worth/Dallas
and Texas A&M School of Law

• Downtown Fort Worth voted #1 Most Livable Downtown in the U.S. by Livability.com.
• Our campus is located next door to the Tarrant County Bar Association.
• Fort Worth/Dallas is home to ​21 Fortune 500 companies, including ExxonMobile, AT&T, American Airlines, Texas Instruments, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group and Tenet Healthcare.
• Fort Worth/Dallas is also home to a number of defense contractors. Two divisions of Lockheed Martin have their divisional headquarters in Fort Worth. Fort Worth is also home to Bell Helicopter Textron, DynCorp, AECOM and Computer Sciences Corporation. Other major defense contractors with a Fort Worth/Dallas presence include Boeing, Vought, Raytheon, BAE Systems, EDS and Perot Systems.
• The Dallas/F​ort Worth International Airport is the 2^nd largest and 4^th busiest airport in the U.S. Every major city in the continental U.S. can be accessed within 4 hours flying time from the airport, giving the region a major competitive advantage in business. Nearby Alliance Airport serves as a key freight transport center.
• Texas is one of the major U.S. centers for computer hardware and software development. The North Dallas area is sometimes called the “Telecom Corridor” or the “Silicon Prairie” for the area’s high concentration of ​information ​technology companies such as Texas Instruments, Perot Systems, and EDS, as well as telecommunications giant AT&T.