Texas A&M Description:
Admissions Data (2008):
- Percent of Applicants Admitted: 70%
- Test Scores -- 25th / 75th Percentile
- SAT Critical Reading: 520 / 630
- SAT Math: 560 / 670
- SAT Writing: 500 / 610
- ACT Composite: 23 / 29
- ACT English: 22 / 29
- ACT Math: 23 / 29
Enrollment (2008):
- Total Enrollment: 48,039 (38,430 undergraduates)
- Gender Breakdown: 52% Male / 48% Female
- 92% Full-time
Costs (2008 - 09):
- Tuition and Fees: $7,844 (in-state); $22,184 (out-of-state)
- Books: $1,200 (why so much?)
- Room and Board: $8,000
- Other Expenses: $2,851
- Total Cost: $19,895 (in-state); $34,235 (out-of-state)
Texas A&M Financial Aid (2007 - 08):
- Percentage of Students Receiving Aid: 72%
- Percentage of Students Receiving Types of Aid
- Grants: 48%
- Loans: 32%
- Average Amount of Aid
- Grants: $8,256
- Loans: $5,102
Most Popular Majors:
Transfer, Graduation and Retention Rates:
- First Year Student Retention (full-time students): 92%
- Transfer Out Rate: 15%
- 4-Year Graduation Rate: 41%
- 6-Year Graduation Rate: 78%
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Texas A&M Mission Statement:
"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, women and men alike, as it addresses the needs of an increasingly diverse population and a global economy. In the twenty-first century, Texas A&M University seeks to assume a place of preeminence among public universities while respecting its history and traditions."
