Texas A&M University : Rankings, Fees & Courses Details

About Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University opened in 1876 as the state's first public institution of higher learning. Today, we are a research-intensive main university dedicated to sending leaders out into the world prepared to take on the challenges of tomorrow.

Texas A&M University is dedicated to the discovery, development, communication, and application of knowledge in a wide range of academic and professional fields. Its mission of providing the highest quality undergraduate and graduate programs is inseparable from its mission of developing new understandings through research and creativity. It prepares students to assume roles in leadership, responsibility and service to society. Texas A&M assumes as its historic trust the maintenance of freedom of inquiry and an intellectual environment nurturing the human mind and spirit. It welcomes and seeks to serve persons of all racial, ethnic and geographic groups as it addresses the needs of an increasingly diverse population and a global economy. In the 21st century, Texas A&M University seeks to assume a place of preeminence among public universities while respecting its history and traditions.

Scope. The flagship of the 19-member Texas A&M University System, Texas A&M University is a tier one research institution, one of only 69 invited members of the Association of American Universities, and one of only 18 institutions nation-wide holding the federal land-, sea- , and space-grant designation.

Texas A&M has strategically grown into one of the nation’s most diverse and comprehensive universities, offering over 140 undergraduate degrees and approximately 270 graduate degree programs including professional degrees in degrees in law, veterinary medicine, medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and public health. With a student body of more than 79,000 (with about 72,000 on the College Station campus), Texas A&M ranks among the nation’s largest universities. It has a maritime branch campus in Galveston, Texas, and an engineering branch campus in Doha, Qatar, and centers in Mexico and Costa Rica.

Academic Excellence. Texas A&M is known for providing a world-class education at a reasonable cost. Twenty-two percent of the student body are the first in their family to attend college, and nearly 66 percent are in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class. Texas A&M ranks fourth among public universities nationally (and first in Texas) for enrollment of National Merit Scholars. It consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the number of science and engineering doctorates awarded, and in the top 20 in the number of doctoral degrees awarded to minorities.

Research. Texas A&M is one of the world’s leading research institutions, with research expenditures of more than $1.278 billion in fiscal year 2024. The National Science Foundation ranks Texas A&M 22nd in the nation for total research and development expenditures for fiscal year 2023 and fourteenth in the nation in NSF funding.

Texas A&M researchers conduct studies on every continent, with more than 600 initiatives underway in more than 80 countries. Texas A&M faculty include three Nobel laureates and 55 members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Law Institute, or American Academy of Nursing.

Texas A&M faculty and students work on practical solutions to real-world challenges, including sustainable and efficient energy, designing and protecting the environment, improving economic development, and enhancing human, animal, and plant health.