Did You Know?

A faculty member at Texas A&M University

  • Texas A&M is about half-way through a five-year, $20 million effort to add 447 new faculty members and $300 million in campus construction.
  • Prairie View A&M is the site of the first Army ROTC (1943) and Navy ROTC (1968) programs established to train African-American officers. The university has produced nine flag-rank officers, more than any other single institution.
  • Tarleton is the largest non-land-grant agriculture university in the country and is a leader in teacher education, having one of the largest and oldest school improvement partnerships in the U.S., benefiting more than 50 area school districts.
  • Texas A&M International’s Lamar Bruni Vergara Science Center’s Planetarium has one of the nation’s few new-generation digital projectors.
  • A&M-Corpus Christi is developing Pulse!!, an electronic medical training simulator for military health-care personnel under grants from the Office of Naval Research totaling almost $10 million.

  • Commerce students take a break

    A&M-Kingsville is one of only five universities in the country to offer a biomedical sciences bachelor’s degree.
  • Four undergraduate degree programs and three masters’ level programs at West Texas A&M can be completed totally online.
  • A&M-Commerce is one of the top producers of school teachers, superintendents, school counselors and community college presidents in Texas.
  • A new mathematics- and engineering-focused elementary school, a collaboration between A&M-Texarkana and the Texarkana Independent School District, is under construction near the site of the new A&M-Texarkana campus.
  • The Texas A&M Health Science Center is the most geographically distributed health science center in Texas, with locations statewide.
  • The Texas Legislature has created two new universities—Texas A&M-Central Texas and Texas A&M-San Antonio—which will become standalone—institutions when enrollment criteria are met.

  • 4-H students work with plants

    In 2005, Texas AgriLife Research scientists filed more than 40 patents and patent applications, invention disclosures, and license agreements for technologies that generated approximately $3 million in income.
  • For every dollar of general revenue provided by the state, Texas Engineering Experiment Station generates almost $13 from other sources to support its service mission, primarily through external research contracts.
  • More than one million Texans between the ages of 5 and 19—about 15 percent of all youth in Texas at that age—are enrolled in 4-H annually, and more than half live in major cities. 4-H is coordinated through Texas AgriLife Extension Service.
  • The Texas Forest Service’s Indian Mound Nursery has grown more than one billion pine seedlings since 1940.
  • Home to the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center, the Texas Engineering Extension Service has been at the forefront of preparing emergency responders to combat incidents involving weapons of mass destruction even prior to 9/11.

  • Traffic signals from the Texas Transportation Institute

    Since 1950, the Texas Transportation Institute has conducted more than 10,000 research projects aimed at solving critical transportation issues and problems.
  • The Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory is a recognized leader in diagnostic aquatic medicine and has received official USDA certification for its diagnostic work in shrimp disease.