Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is a public land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant research university in College Station, Texas, founded in 1876 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. It is the flagship of the Texas A&M University System. The Corps of Cadets, a uniformed student military organization that still enrolls several thousand students, sits alongside the land-grant mission as the university's defining structural fact.

Academic colleges include engineering, agriculture and life sciences, veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences, the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Mays Business School, geosciences, arts and sciences, architecture, education, and the School of Medicine and other health units of Texas A&M Health. The Cyclotron Institute and agricultural experiment stations and veterinary hospitals are the main extra-departmental research settings for graduate students.

College Station enrolls more than 70,000 students, among the largest single-campus enrollments in the United States, with about 15,000 in graduate and professional programs and several thousand international students. Faculty number more than 4,000. Alumni include former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, former Texas governor Rick Perry, and astronaut Michael Fossum.

Texas A&M awards MS, MEng, MBA, MPA, PhD, DVM, MD and other professional degrees. Doctoral study combines coursework, qualifying exams and a dissertation; engineering offers both research and professional master's. The calendar is semester-based. Assistantships, fellowships and agency-funded research posts are the usual support. College Station and adjoining Bryan form a large campus town on the Brazos Prairie, about 90 miles northwest of Houston.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Texas A&M University lists 254 graduate programs across 49 subjects: 144 master's programs and 103 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in education, agriculture, food & forestry and biology. Texas A&M University holds rank 93 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.