Scope. The flagship of the 18-member Texas A&M University System, Texas A&M University is a tier one research institution, one of only 62 invited members of the Association of American Universities, and one of only 17 holding the federal land-, sea- , and space-grant designation.

　　The state’s first public institution of higher learning, Texas A&M has strategically grown into one of the nation’s most diverse and comprehensive universities, offering nearly 200 undergraduate majors and nearly 245 graduate degree programs, as well as professional degrees in law, veterinary medicine, medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and public health. With a student body of more than 68,600 (with about 63,000 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-six percent of the student body are the first in their family to attend college, and nearly 60 percent are in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class. Texas A&M ranks second among public universities nationally 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.

　　Graduates excel in the workforce. Texas A&M ranks in the top 10 nationally for graduates who get well-paid jobs, and is first in Texas (and among the top nationally) for early- and mid-career earnings of graduates. Texas A&M also ranks first (along with other institutions) in the number of Fortune 500 CEOs.

　　Other recent rankings:

　　#1 among all schools nationally in “Great Schools You Can Actually Get Into” (Money)

　　#1 among public universities nationally in the number of students (more than 3,900) engaging in study, research, internship, or volunteer experiences abroad (in more than 150 countries) each year (Institute of International Education)

　　#2 among public universities nationally in “Best Value Schools” (U.S. News & World Report)

　　#2 among public universities nationally in “research, service, social mobility and contributions to society” (Washington Monthly)

　　Research. Texas A&M is one of the world’s leading research institutions, with research expenditures of more than $892 million in fiscal year 2016. The National Science Foundation ranks Texas A&M 16th in the nation for total research and development expenditures for fiscal year 2015, at more than $866 million, and sixth 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 53 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.

　　Examples include the following:

　　College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, the only veterinary college in Texas, conducts advanced research in signature areas of biomedical genomics, cardiovascular sciences, infectious diseases, neuroscience, reproductive biology, toxicology, and veterinary clinical research. The College is pioneering the study of human cancer using the Texas A&M-Texas Veterinary Cancer Registry for pets diagnosed with cancer, the model for the National Veterinary Cancer Registry.

　　Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (of which Texas A&M is one of 11 international partners) is constructing the largest optical telescope in the world, scheduled to become fully operational by 2024, in Chile.

　　International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) is an international marine research collaboration dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of the Earth through drilling, coring, and monitoring the subsea floor. The research enabled by IODP improves our understanding of climate and ocean conditions, the origins of ancient life, the risks posed by geohazards, and the structure and processes of Earth’s tectonic plates and uppermost mantle. IODP began in 2013 and builds on four previous scientific ocean drilling programs that represent the longest-running and most successful international Earth science collaboration.

　　Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing, founded in 2012 on an initial $285.6 million public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, enhances the nation’s emergency preparedness against emerging infectious diseases, including pandemic influenza and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats. Center researchers accelerate vaccines and other medical products through pre-clinical and clinical development and produce them in response to pandemics or other national emergencies.

　　Cyclotron Institute, one of only four such university-based, U.S. Department of Energy-funded laboratories, is home to one of a handful of K500 superconducting cyclotrons worldwide, with an unmatched capability for research in nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry. It also serves as a technical support base for collaborative research programs at other major national and international accelerator facilities.

　　Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases collaborates with agricultural industries, major research universities, the national laboratories, and the World Organization for Animal Health to provide early detection, diagnosis, prevention, response, and recovery as needed to protect the U.S. food supply, through funding from three federal departments: Homeland Security, Agriculture, and Defense.

　　English Language Learning and Acquisition, established in Texas A&M’s College of Education and Human Development through a $16.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, supports and promotes the college’s ongoing, nationally known programs on closing the achievement gap between English-language learners and their native English-speaking classmates.

　　Texas A&M helps implement research solutions that improve lives around the world through a technology commercialization office that manages more than 950 patents and 1,650 patent applications relating to a portfolio of more than 1,950 invention disclosures. The Association of Technology Managers ranks Texas A&M among the top in the nation in the number of active, revenue-generating license agreements. In addition, Princeton Review ranks Texas A&M in the top 20 universities nationally for entrepreneurship at the undergraduate level.

　　范围。作为拥有18所成员校的德州农工大学系统的旗舰，德州农工大学是一所一流的研究机构，是美国大学协会仅有的62个受邀成员之一，也是仅有的17所获得联邦土地、海洋和太空资助资格的机构之一。

　　作为该州首所公立高等学府，德州农工大学战略性发展成为全国最多元化和最全面的大学之一，提供近200个本科专业和近245个研究生学位项目，以及法律、兽医学、医学、牙科、护理、药学和公共卫生等专业学位。德州农工大学拥有超过68,600名学生(其中约63,000人在学院站校园)，是美国最大的大学之一。学院在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿设有海事分校，在卡塔尔多哈设有工程分校，并在墨西哥和哥斯达黎加设有分校。

　　学术卓越。德州农工大学以提供世界一流的教育且价格合理而闻名。26%的学生是家中第一个上大学的人，近60%的学生位列高中毕业班前10%。德州农工大学在全国公立大学中国家优异学者注册人数排名第二。在授予理工博士学位的数量上，它始终位列前十名，在授予少数民族的博士学位数量上位列前二十。

　　毕业生在职场表现优异。德州农工大学在获得高薪工作的毕业生中排名全国前十，并且在德州(以及全国)毕业生早期和中期职业收入方面排名第一。德州农工大学在财富 500 强 CEO 数量上与其他院校并列第一。

　　其他近期排名：

　　在全国“你真正能进入的优秀学校”中排名第一(Money)

　　在全国公立大学中，每年参与海外学习、研究、实习或志愿服务的学生人数(超过3900人，分布于150多个国家)排名第一(国际教育研究所)

　　在全国“最佳价值学校”中排名第2(美国新闻与世界报道)

　　在全国公立大学中，“研究、服务、社会流动性和对社会的贡献”排名#2(华盛顿月刊)

　　研究。 德州农工大学是全球领先的研究机构之一，2016财年研究支出超过8.92亿美元。美国国家科学基金会将德州农工大学评为2015财年全国第16的总研发支出，超过8.66亿美元，国家科学基金会资助排名第六。

　　德州农工大学的研究人员在所有大洲开展研究，目前已有600多个项目在80多个国家开展。德州农工大学的教职员工包括三位诺贝尔奖得主，以及53名美国国家科学院、国家工程院、国家医学院、美国艺术与科学院、美国法学院或美国护理学会的成员。

　　德州农工大学的师生致力于解决现实世界挑战的切实方案，包括可持续高效能源、设计与保护环境、促进经济发展，以及提升人类、动物和植物健康。

　　例如：

　　兽医学院与生物医学科学学院是德克萨斯州唯一的兽医学院，专注于生物医学基因组学、心血管科学、传染病、神经科学、生殖生物学、毒理学和兽医临床研究等标志性研究领域。学院利用德州农工大学-德克萨斯兽医癌症登记处(National Veterinary Cancer Registry)作为国家兽医癌症登记处的模型，开创性地研究人类癌症。

　　巨型麦哲伦望远镜组织(德州农工大学是其11个国际合作伙伴之一)正在智利建设世界上最大的光学望远镜，计划于2024年全面投入使用。

　　国际海洋发现计划(IODP)是一个国际海洋研究合作项目，致力于通过钻探、取芯和监测海底，推进对地球的科学理解。IODP 所推动的研究增进了我们对气候和海洋状况、古代生命起源、地质灾害风险以及地球构造板块和地幔结构与过程的理解。IODP 始于 2013 年，建立在之前四个科学海洋钻探项目的基础上，这些项目代表了历史最悠久、最成功的国际地球科学合作项目。

　　先进发展与制造创新中心成立于2012年，基于与美国卫生与公共服务部的2.856亿美元公私合作伙伴关系，提升了国家对新兴传染病(包括流感大流行以及化学、生物、放射性和核威胁)的应急准备。中心研究人员通过临床前和临床开发加速疫苗及其他医疗产品的研发，并针对疫情或其他国家紧急情况进行生产。

　　回旋加速器研究所是美国能源部资助的四所大学实验室之一，拥有全球少数几台 K500 超导回旋加速器之一，具备核物理和核化学研究无与伦比的能力。它还作为其他主要国家和国际加速器设施合作研究项目的技术支持基地。

　　传染性动物疾病研究所与农业产业、主要研究型大学、国家实验室以及世界动物卫生组织合作，通过国土安全部、农业部和国防部三个联邦部门的资助，提供早期发现、诊断、预防、响应和恢复服务，以保护美国粮食供应。

　　英语学习与习得项目由美国教育部1630万美元资助设立于德州农工大学教育与人类发展学院，支持并推广该学院正在进行的、全国知名的项目，旨在缩小英语学习者与母语英语同学之间的成就差距。

　　德州农工大学通过一个技术商业化办公室，帮助实施改善全球生活的研究解决方案，该办公室管理着950多项专利和1650项专利申请，涉及1950多项发明披露项目。技术经理协会将德州农工大学在活跃的、产生收入的许可协议数量上排名全国前列。此外，《普林斯顿评论》将德州农工大学评为全国本科创业能力前20名。