Campus
The main campus includes 406 acres, part of the original homestead of Thomas J. Rusk, early Texas patriot and United States senator. In addition, the university maintains a 642-acre
agricultural research center for beef, poultry and swine production and an equine center; an 18.7-acre experimental forest in southwestern nacogdoches County and a 25.3-acre forestry field station on Lake Sam Rayburn.

Academics
The university offers graduate majors in accounting, agriculture, art, athletic training, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, communication, (communication sciences and disorders) computer science, counseling, early childhood, elementary education, educational leadership, English, environmental science, forestry, general business, geology, history, kinesiology, management, mathematics, music, natural science, physics, psychology, public administration, forest resource interpretation, mathematics teaching, school psychology, secondary education, social work, spatial science, special education, speech language pathology and statistics. Minors are offered in many fields listed above and, in addition, in geography, political science, sociology and theater.

Admission
- Clear admission under which the student is eligible to work toward a graduate degree;
- Probationary admission under which the student is eligible to work toward a graduate degree but with the provision that the student earn a B average on course work the first semester or summer session of registration or be placed on academic suspension;
- Provisional admission under which an individual is permitted to take graduate courses for one semester only, under the provisions described below;
- Post-baccalaureate admission under which the student already holding a bachelor’s or master’s degree is eligible to take graduate courses but may apply only a limited number of these courses toward a graduate degree.

Grants at Stephen F. Austin State University are gift aid that do not have to be repaid.
Here are the types of them:
- Federal Pell Grant
- Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG)
- Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG)
- SMART Grant
- TEACH Grant
- Texas Public Education Grant (TPEG)
- LEAP/SLEAP
- Texas Grant
- Lumberjack Grant

The types of loans are as follows:
- Federal Direct Subsidized Loan
- Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan
- Federal Perkins Loan
- Federal Parent PLUS Loan
- Federal Graduate PLUS Loan
- B-on-Time Loan
- College Access Loan (CAL)
- Alternative Loans
- Emergency Short-Term Loans for Tuition and Fees
- Book Loans