unitid 228723 · College Station, TX · public 4-year · city (midsize)
Texas A&M University-College Station
Public land-grant university in College Station, Texas, US
- founded
- 1876
- enrollment 2023
- 78,501
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- tamu.edu
Texas A&M University is a public land-grant research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. Since 2021, Texas A&M has enrolled the largest student body in the United States. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and since 2001 has been a member of the Association of American Universities. wikipedia rev 1364514345 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
57%
14th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
59,615
100th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
20%
undergrads on Pell grants
16th pctl among public 4-years
completion
84%
finish within 150% time
96th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$32,696
93rd pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$21,315
after aid, aided students
93rd pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$72,097
after entry, Title IV students
91st pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$17,804
37th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $12,784 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k24%
- 30-48k15%
- 48-75k15%
- 75-110k15%
- 110k+31%
- Median family income
- $58,904
- First-generation students
- 30%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $13,154
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 4.0× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biology, General. | 854 | $64,611 | $17,943 |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other. | 595 | $56,370 | $20,500 |
| Psychology, General. | 569 | $57,797 | $19,121 |
| Agricultural Business and Management. | 504 | $72,348 | $20,125 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 472 | $81,761 | $18,524 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 469 | $97,743 | $19,500 |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 466 | $67,447 | $20,414 |
| Computer Science. | 392 | — | $20,187 |
| Communication and Media Studies. | 374 | $62,316 | $17,782 |
| Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies. | 374 | — | — |
| Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General. | 355 | — | $16,543 |
| Animal Sciences. | 339 | $61,442 | $18,906 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 5,035 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,032) · basketball player (554) · university teacher (296) · American football player (224) · politician (142) · academic (93) · engineer (85) · baseball player (77)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Eva Longoria
83 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
C. Wright Mills
55 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Rick Perry
52 wikis · Public domain
Rip Torn
49 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Martín Torrijos
37 wikis · CC BY 3.0 br
DeAndre Jordan
34 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Tiffany Thornton
33 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Gene Wolfe
33 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Khris Middleton
33 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Athing Mu
32 wikis · CC BY 2.0
NoViolet Bulawayo
30 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jorge Quiroga
30 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Steven Swanson
29 wikis · Public domain
Randy Barnes
28 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Michael E. Fossum
28 wikis · Public domain
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built 2026-07-17
Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364514345), CC BY-SA 4.0.