The sun sets on Texas State University.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/MissDirectionTV Texas State University ranks among the nation's 10 worst higher-ed institutions for free speech on campus, according to a new study by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

The San Marcos-based school received the dismal designation in the of wake recent headlines about its separate firings of two professors over comments they made off campus and the expulsion of a student over an online video.