A&M Facts

Texas A&M University at Qatar is a branch campus of Texas A&M University, a research-intensive flagship university in College Station, Texas. As thousands of current and former students will attest, the Aggie experience is one of a kind. There's access to world-class research programs and award-winning faculty. There are opportunities to learn in and out of the classroom through technology, internships and cooperative education programs. And there's the prestige of joining the global Aggie Network. Here are some quick facts about Texas A&M and Texas A&M at Qatar.

Texas A&M University

Founded 1876.

Purpose: Developing leaders of character dedicated to serving the greater good.

More than 280,000 former students form the Aggie Network.

8,085 freshmen in the fall 2007 class.

800 student organizations.

Ranked first in the United States by Washington Monthly magazine for "tangible contributions to the public interest" and third by U.S. News & World Report in "best values among public universities."

College Station campus is 11,000 acres.

Branch campuses in Galveston, Texas, and Doha, Qatar. Study centers in Mexico City and Santa Chiara, Italy.

More than 2,800 faculty.

More than 120 undergraduate degree programs and more than 240 master's and Ph.D. programs offered.

Spring 2008 enrollment: 43,872. Among those: 8,500 graduate students.

Average SAT score: 1208 (almost 200 points higher than the national average).

Endowment ranks among the top five nationally for public universities.

University libraries have almost 4 million volumes in addition to electronic texts, online journals and digital archives.

$570 million invested in research in the University's 10 colleges.

Student-to-faculty ratio is 20 to 1.

Texas A&M University at Qatar

Research emphasis areas include environmental issues, advanced water treatment technologies, chemical process safety, petroleum reservoir studies, mathematical modeling, machinery and controls, telecommunications, transportation and roads, electric power generation, distribution and machinery, chemistry, and physics.

Thirty-two graduates since December 2007.

Student body of nearly 300 comprising students from more than 20 countries.

The inaugural class of Texas A&M at Qatar began on September 7, 2003, with 29 students, of whom 24 were Qatari and 15 of these were female students.

Texas A&M at Qatar received 1035 applicants for Fall 2007 admission. The Class of 2011 consists of 98 students from 18 countries.

Texas A&M at Qatar has more than 20 student organizations and clubs representing students' diversified interests that range from academic activities to entertainment. Clubs activities range from hosting lectures and art exhibitions to organizing sports activities and environmental awareness activities.

A student leadership exchange program takes place in the spring of each academic year where 10 students from College Station visit the Qatar campus for a week over spring break and in return 10 Texas A&M at Qatar students visit the College Station campus for a week over their spring break.