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From humble beginnings in 1876 as the Lone Star State’s first public institution of higher learning, Texas A&M University today is undergoing one of the most exciting periods of growth and development in all of higher education.

Even with nearly 49,000 students, we continue to lead the state in student retention and graduation rates overall, as well as for African-American and Hispanic students. The average SAT scores of our entering freshmen are considerably higher than the national average and we rank among the nation’s leaders for enrollment of new National Merit Scholars. About one quarter of our 9,100 freshmen are the first in their families to go to college.

Our unprecedented, multi-million-dollar effort to add nearly 450 new faculty members over five years has brought the total to more than 2,900. In addition, more than $800 million in construction – thought to be a record in American higher education – is either under way or in the planning stages on our 5,200-acre campus.

Texas A&M is nationally recognized for providing a high quality education at a reasonable cost, most recently by The Princeton Review, Kiplinger’s and Smart Money.

  • Texas A&M Oceanographer Kessler named To Discover Top Stories of 2011

    Texas A&M University oceanographer John Kessler and his research findings during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have been named one of Discover Magazine’s “Top 100 Stories of 2011.”

  • Ship Sunk Four Centuries Ago Virtually Reconstructed In 3-D At Texas A&M

    Sunk in 1606, the Portuguese merchant ship Nossa Senhora dos Martires is sailing again — in 3-D presently but perhaps one day in reality. If the cyber-replicated vessel ever does hit the high seas, the way will have been paved by the research of a persevering Texas A&M University nautical archaeologist combined with the high-tech applied study of a graduate student well versed in computer-based visualization techniques.

  • Galveston Prof Gets $1.2 Million Grant To Study Ways To Eliminate Nuclear Waste

    Imagine a substance that could gobble up deadly nuclear waste like so many peanuts. That’s the goal of a researcher and his team at Texas A&M University at Galveston, who have been awarded $1.2 million in grants from the Department of Energy (DOE’s Office of Science) to see if it can happen.

  • Manipulating the way bacteria talk...

    By manipulating the way bacteria “talk” to each other, researchers at Texas A&M University have achieved an unprecedented degree of control over the formation and dispersal of biofilms – a finding with potentially significant health and industrial applications, particularly to bioreactor technology.

  • About TAMU

    View what makes Texas A&M University stand out.

  • It's Time For Texas A&M

    See how Texas A&M delivers superb learning opportunities and turn discovery into deeds.

  • Faculty a Focus at Texas A&M

    The more than 2,900 faculty members of Texas A&M include winners of the Nobel Prize, Wolf Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Medal of Science and members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine. More than 500 hold the title of fellow or a title of equal significance in their respective fields.

  • Texas A&M, a Research Leader

    With $650 million invested in research, Texas A&M ranks in the top tier of universities nationwide in research expenditures. Our faculty is recognized worldwide for developing problem-solving research breakthroughs and writing the textbooks that teach the next generation of experts.

  • Graduate Students – Education, Experience, Enrichment

    The graduate student experience is more than just papers and projects. It's about faculty and students driven by the spirit of discovery, and committed to pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Each year, Texas A&M faculty members conduct hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of sponsored research projects, assisted by more than 5,000 paid graduate students.

  • Texas A&M and the Community

    Texas A&M University is located in the twin cities of Bryan and College Station, home to about 170,000 residents. Our Central Texas location offers the best of both worlds: it's small enough to offer safe and affordable living and just a short drive to three major Texas cities—Houston, Austin and Dallas.