The College of Sciences at Angelo State University is a unit of the Texas Tech University System located in San Angelo, Texas. The College consists of six academic departments offering 20 undergraduate and 3 graduate degree's. The college offers opportunities for undergraduate research and has the highest per-capita Medical School placement rate of any public institution in Texas. Angelo State University is a member institution of the Texas Space Grant Consortium; part of the NASA space-grant university system. The Computer Science program is listed in the Princeton Review as one of the Top 50 Game Design programs in North America. The Physics Department is ranked as one of the top 20 undergraduate programs in the nation by Physics Today. The Natural History Collection was founded in 1960 by Drs. Wilmot A. Thornton and Gordon C. Creel. The collection is now one of the largest in the state including over 11,000 specimens. The Management Instruction and Research Center is a 6,000-acre (24 km) ranch consisting of range and farmland that serves as a teaching and research facility for Angelo State University students and faculty.