Editing Texas A&M University (section)

{{Short description|Public university in College Station, Texas, US}}
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{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Texas A&M University
 | image                  = Texas A&M University seal.svg
 | image_size             = 150
 | image_upright          = .5
 | established            = {{start date and age|1876}}<ref name=DateHistory>{{cite web |url = https://www.tamu.edu/about/history.html |title = History of the University |publisher = Texas A&M University |date = |access-date = December 31, 2021 |quote = The State of Texas agreed to create a college under the terms of the Morrill Act in November 1866, but actual formation didn't come until the establishment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas by the Texas state legislature on April 17, 1871.}}</ref>{{NoteTag|The seal contains the date 1876, the year in which Texas A&M began classes. Both 1871 (the year the Texas Legislature appropriated funds to begin A&M's construction) and 1876 can be considered the dates of establishment depending on the context of the usage.<ref name=DateHistory/>}}
 | type                   = [[Public university|Public]] [[Land-grant university|land-grant]] [[research university|research]] [[United States senior military college|senior military university]]
 | parent                 = [[Texas A&M University System]]
 | academic_affiliations  = {{hlist
|[[Association of American Universities|AAU]]
|[[Oak Ridge Associated Universities|ORAU]]
|[[Universities Research Association|URA]]
|[[National Sea Grant College Program|Sea-grant]]
|[[National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program|Space-grant]]<ref>{{cite news |author = Texas A&M University |url = http://www.science.tamu.edu/dean/tamu/ |title = About Texas A&M |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100809103105/http://www.science.tamu.edu/dean/tamu/ |archive-date = August 9, 2010 }}</ref>
}}
 | endowment              = $18.13 billion ([[Fiscal year|FY]]2023)<br />(Texas A&M only)<ref name=TAMUEndowment>As of August 31, 2023. {{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reported-data/228723?year=2023&surveyNumber=6 |title=IPEDS - Texas A & M University-College Station |date=January 7, 2025 |website=[[National Center for Education Statistics]] |publisher=[[United States Department of Education]] |access-date=January 7, 2025 }}</ref><br />$20.38 billion (FY2024)<br />(system-wide)<ref name=NACUBO>As of June 30, 2024. {{cite web |url=https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |title=U.S. and Canadian 2024 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2024 Endowment Market Value, Change in Market Value from FY23 to FY24, and FY24 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student |date=February 12, 2025 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) |access-date=February 12, 2025 |format=XLSX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212074654/https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |archive-date=February 12, 2025 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | president              = [[Mark A. Welsh III]]
 | provost                = Alan Sams
 | faculty                = 4,300 (fall 2024)<ref name="Faculty">{{cite web |url = https://abpa.tamu.edu/accountability-metrics/faculty-and-staff/faculty-quick-facts |title = Faculty Quick Facts |access-date = January 8, 2025 |publisher = Texas A&M University |archive-date = January 8, 2025 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250108230804/https://login.microsoftonline.com/68f381e3-46da-47b9-ba57-6f322b8f0da1/oauth2/authorize?client_id=173cb364-fa2f-4a4f-9839-8c2ffb066397&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fabpa.tamu.edu&response_type=code%20id_token&scope=openid%20profile&state=OpenIdConnect.AuthenticationProperties%3DQjyYlkrnRXSWY2FRMO6uhXAA5smQUZTWukTtt6mNlBNNevDuy-Mhj-uOM9sQz9zjMRoeyrT6Zhwy4EESGrbjRDacrBQf0udj_m1dDw0PtiAl3xMguWsFGmaYVd9iFhUrHw6ecyK7ZUyszETCAECswCb9SBb_SOAEn-fAxYWBkf6-B7a1P9UflKolCb8XeYUvlIlAbWbOkLWakN659qIEOK0CbN80Y9J0ro5Z47r2RgefCMZa59aSyQj3wVnn1rbYOFF0t2CoAANByxSw4K-1mQ&response_mode=form_post&nonce=638719744831258639.ZWFiMTcxOWItMzI0OS00MTMxLTlhNDgtM2M4Yzk1YmVkOGJlMDRmNmNiMzYtZTllOC00MGJiLTljMDAtNGI5ZDFhNmY1NmY3&x-client-SKU=ID_NET461&x-client-ver=5.3.0.0 |url-status = dead }}</ref>
| students                = 79,114 (fall 2024)<ref name="totalstuds" /><ref name="Student Demographics">{{cite web |url = https://abpa.tamu.edu/accountability-metrics/student-metrics/student-demographics |access-date = January 8, 2025 |publisher = Texas A&M University |title = Student Demographics }}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 61,442 (fall 2024)<ref name="Texas A&M University Office of Academic and Business Performance Analytics">{{cite web |url=https://abpa.tamu.edu/accountability-metrics/student-metrics/student-demographics |title=Student Demographics |access-date=January 8, 2025 |publisher=Texas A&M University }}</ref>
 | postgrad               = 12,140 (fall 2024)<ref name="Texas A&M University Office of Academic and Business Performance Analytics" />
 | doctoral               = 5,439 (fall 2024)<ref name="Texas A&M University Office of Academic and Business Performance Analytics" />
 | city                   = [[College Station, Texas|College Station]]
 | state                  = [[Texas]]
 | country                = United States<ref name="TAMUCatalog"/>{{NoteTag|The institution's [[branch campus]]es, [[Texas A&M University at Galveston]] and [[Texas A&M University at Qatar]], are considered part of Texas A&M's Main Campus. These branches are located in [[Galveston, Texas]] and in [[Education City]], [[Al Rayyan (city)|Al Rayyan]], Qatar respectively.<ref name="TAMUCatalog"/>}}
 | coordinates            = {{Coord|30|36|37|N|96|20|37|W|region:US-TX_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
 | campus                 = Midsize city<ref>{{cite web |url = https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=texas+a%26m&s=all&id=228723 |title = IPEDS-Texas A&M University, College Station |publisher = [[National Center for Educational Statistics]] |website = nces.ed.gov |access-date = December 21, 2021 }}</ref> 
|campus_size = {{convert|5500|acre|km2|-1|sp=us}}<ref name="TAMUUAC">{{cite web |url = http://uac.tamu.edu/files/2010/09/UACBulletinFall2003Edition1.pdf |title = Texas A&M UAC Bulletin |access-date = February 20, 2008 |page = 4 |publisher = Texas A&M University |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120915221711/http://uac.tamu.edu/files/2010/09/UACBulletinFall2003Edition1.pdf |archive-date = September 15, 2012 }}</ref>
 | former_names           = State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas{{NoteTag|The school was first given this name in 1871 (the year the Texas Legislature appropriated funds to begin A&M's construction), but did not open for instruction until 1876<ref name=DateHistory/> The institution ceased using the word "State" around 1887.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://library.tamu.edu/collections/digital-library/course-catalogs|title=Texas A&M University Archived Catalogs|website=Texas A&M University Libraries}}</ref> It was known as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas until it became Texas A&M University in 1963.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.tamu.edu/about/facts/faq.html |publisher = Texas A&M University |title = Frequently Asked Questions |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150730130908/http://www.tamu.edu/about/facts/faq.html |archive-date=July 30, 2015 }}</ref>}}
 | sporting_affiliations  = [[NCAA Division I]] [[NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision|FBS]] – [[Southeastern Conference|SEC]]
 | colors                 = Aggie maroon and white<ref>{{cite web |url=https://brandguide.tamu.edu/web/web-color-palette.html |title=Web Color Palette |publisher=Texas A&M University |access-date=December 21, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414011132/https://brandguide.tamu.edu/web/web-color-palette.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://brandguide.tamu.edu/visual-style/brand-colors.html |title = Brand Colors |publisher = Texas A&M University |access-date = December 21, 2021 }}</ref><br />{{color box|#500000}}&nbsp;{{color box|#FFFFFF}}
 | sports_nickname        = [[Texas A&M Aggies|Aggies]], [[Texas Aggies]]
 | mascot                 = [[Reveille (Texas A&M)|Reveille X]]
 | website                = {{URL|tamu.edu}}
 | logo                   = Texas A&M University wordmark.svg
 | logo_upright           = .75
 | accreditation          = [[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools|SACS]]
 | total_staff            = 11,114 (fall 2024)<ref name="Faculty" /><ref name="StaffStats">{{cite web |url = https://accountability.tamu.edu/All-Metrics/Mixed-Metrics/Staff-Demographics |title = Staff Demographics |access-date = January 8, 2025 |publisher = Texas A&M University |archive-date = January 8, 2025 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250108230804/https://login.microsoftonline.com/68f381e3-46da-47b9-ba57-6f322b8f0da1/oauth2/authorize?client_id=173cb364-fa2f-4a4f-9839-8c2ffb066397&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fabpa.tamu.edu&response_type=code%20id_token&scope=openid%20profile&state=OpenIdConnect.AuthenticationProperties%3DQjyYlkrnRXSWY2FRMO6uhXAA5smQUZTWukTtt6mNlBNNevDuy-Mhj-uOM9sQz9zjMRoeyrT6Zhwy4EESGrbjRDacrBQf0udj_m1dDw0PtiAl3xMguWsFGmaYVd9iFhUrHw6ecyK7ZUyszETCAECswCb9SBb_SOAEn-fAxYWBkf6-B7a1P9UflKolCb8XeYUvlIlAbWbOkLWakN659qIEOK0CbN80Y9J0ro5Z47r2RgefCMZa59aSyQj3wVnn1rbYOFF0t2CoAANByxSw4K-1mQ&response_mode=form_post&nonce=638719744831258639.ZWFiMTcxOWItMzI0OS00MTMxLTlhNDgtM2M4Yzk1YmVkOGJlMDRmNmNiMzYtZTllOC00MGJiLTljMDAtNGI5ZDFhNmY1NmY3&x-client-SKU=ID_NET461&x-client-ver=5.3.0.0|url-status = dead }}</ref><!-- 4300 faculty and 6814 other staff-->

| free_label = Other campuses
| free = {{hlist| [[Texas A&M University at Galveston|Galveston]]|[[Texas A&M University at Qatar|Qatar]]}}
|free_label2 = Newspaper
|free2 = ''[[The Battalion]]''
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'''Texas A&M University''' ('''Texas A&M''', '''A&M''', '''TA&M''', or '''TAMU''') is a [[public university|public]], [[Land-grant university|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 [[List of United States university campuses by enrollment|largest student body in the United States]].<ref>{{cite web |url = https://today.tamu.edu/2021/10/20/record-enrollment-numbers-continue-at-texas-am/ |title = Record Enrollment Numbers Continue at Texas A&M |date = October 20, 2021 |publisher = Texas A&M University |access-date = December 21, 2021 }}</ref>  It is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and since 2001 a member of the [[Association of American Universities]].

The university was the first public higher education institution in Texas; it opened for classes on October 4, 1876, as the [[History of Texas A&M University|Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas]] (A.M.C.) under the provisions of the 1862 [[Morrill Land-Grant Acts|Morrill Land-Grant Act]]. In the following decades, the college grew in size and scope, expanding to its largest enrollment during WWII before its first significant stagnation in enrollment post-war.<ref name=HistEnroll>{{cite web|url=https://dars.tamu.edu/Data-and-Reports/Student/files/Overall_Enrollment_Historical.aspx|title=Historical Enrollment Texas A&M University|date=December 15, 2021|publisher=Texas A&M University}}</ref> Enrollment grew again in the 1960s under the leadership of President [[James Earl Rudder]], during whose tenure, the college desegregated, became coeducational, and ended the requirement for participation in the [[Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets|Corps of Cadets]]. In 1963, to reflect the institution's expanded roles and academic offerings, the [[Texas Legislature]] renamed the college Texas A&M University; the letters "A&M" were retained as a tribute to the university's former designation.

[[Campus of Texas A&M University|The university's main campus]] spans over {{convert|5500|acre|km2|0|sp=us}}, and includes the [[George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum]]. The university offers degrees in more than 130 courses of study through 18 colleges, and houses 21 research institutes. As a [[United States senior military college|senior military college]], Texas A&M is one of six American universities classed as a senior military college and has a full-time, volunteer [[Cadet Corps]] whose members study alongside civilian undergraduate students. About one-fifth of the student body lives on campus. Texas A&M has more than 1,000 officially recognized student organizations. The university's students, alumni,<!--to Aggies who (correctly) point out that they refer to "alumni" under the term "former students", you are correct, however, alumni encompasses graduates, dropouts, those still enrolled and working on further degrees, etc. It is completely correct to state that they are "alumni". This has been discussed on the talk page extensively (to include Aggies) and this has been the agreed upon terminology. If you feel consensus has changed, please start a thread on the article's talk page and many will be happy to discuss--> and sports teams are known as [[Texas A&M Aggies|Aggies]], and its athletes compete in eighteen varsity sports as a member of the [[Southeastern Conference]].