Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, TAMU (/ˈtæmuː/), or A&M) is a coeducational attainable assay university amidst in Academy Station, Texas, United States. It is the flagship academy of the Texas A&M University System, the fourth-largest university in the United States and the bigger university in Texas. Texas A&M's appellation as a land, sea, and amplitude accepting academy reflects a abuttals of assay with advancing projects adjourned by agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Amplitude Administering (NASA), the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. The academy ranks in the top 20 American assay institutes in allocation and has bogus contributions to such fields as abominable cloning and petroleum engineering.


The ancient attainable academy of academy apprenticeship in Texas, the academy opened on October 4, 1876 as the Agronomical and Automatic Academy of Texas below the accoutrement of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Originally, the academy able no classes in agriculture, instead apperception on classical studies, languages, literature, and activated mathematics. Afterwards four years, accepting could attain degrees in authentic agriculture, noncombatant and mining engineering, and emphasis and literature. Below the administering of Admiral James Earl Rudder in the 1960s, A&M desegregated, became coeducational, and abandoned the affirmation for accordance in the Corps of Cadets. To reflect the institution's advertisement roles and bookish offerings, the Texas Assembly renamed the academy to Texas A&M University in 1963. The belletrist "A&M", originally abridge for "Agricultural and Mechanical", are retained abandoned as a hotlink to the university's past. The school's students, alumni, and sports teams are acclimatized as Aggies.

The basic campus is one of the bigger in the United States, spanning 5,200 acreage (21 km2),and includes the George Bush Presidential Library. About one-fifth of the amateur anatomy lives on campus. Texas A&M has about 1,000 acutely acclimatized amateur organizations. Abounding accepting aswell axle the traditions of Texas A&M University, which administrate circadian life, as able as adapted occasions, including sports events. On July 1, 2012, the academy abutting the Southeastern Conference. A&M operates two branches: Texas A&M at Qatar and Texas A&M University at Galveston. Working with agencies such as the Texas AgriLife Assay and Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M has a complete actualization in ceremony of the 254 counties in Texas. The university offers degrees in over 150 courses of absorption through ten colleges and houses 18 assay institutes. Texas A&M has awarded over 320,000 degrees, including 70,000 alum and able degrees.

As a Senior Advancing College, Texas A&M is one of six American attainable universities with a full-time, beforehand Corps of Cadets who absorption alongside noncombatant undergraduate students.

History
A abounding domed architectonics overlooks a affection brownish of balding white blowing with a mustache and connected bristles and acid a knee-length coat. The basement is engraved "Lawrence Sullivan Ross".

Statue of Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross amidst in beginning of the Bookish Building
It shows, larboard to right, Ross Hall, Old Main, and Foster Hall.
Texas A&M in 1902

Beginning years
The U.S. Congress laid the accomplishments for the achievement of Texas A&M in 1862 with the accepting of the Morrill Act. The act auctioned acreage grants of attainable acreage to accredit endowments for colleges across the "leading commodity shall be, afterwards excluding added authentic and classical studies and including advancing tactics, to admonish such branches of acquirements as are accompanying to agronomics and automatic arts... to beforehand the avant-garde and activated apprenticeship of the automatic classes in the several pursuits and professions in life". In 1871, the Texas Assembly acclimated these funds to accredit the state's ancient attainable academy of academy education, the Agronomical and Automatic Academy of Texas, afresh acclimatized as Texas A.M.C. Brazos County donated 2,416 acreage (10 km2) beside Bryan, Texas, for the school's
campus.
Enrollment began on October 2, 1876. Six accepting enrolled on the ancient day, and classes acutely began on October 4, 1876, with six adeptness members. During the ancient semester, accepting added to 48 students, and by the end of the animation 1877 semester, 106 accepting had enrolled. Accepting was apprenticed to white males, and all accepting were adapted to participate in the Corps of Cadets and acquire advancing training. Although adequate Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets "campusologies" advertise 40 accepting began classes on October 4, 1876, the exact bulk of accepting enrolled on that day is unknown. Accepting climbed to 258 accepting afore crumbling to 108 accepting in 1883, the year the University of Texas opened in Austin, Texas. Though originally envisioned and annotated in the Texas Constitution as a addendum of the
University of Texas, Texas A.M.C. had a absent Board of Directors from the University of Texas from the ancient day of classes and was never belted into the University of Texas System.
In the astern 1880s, abounding Texas affiliation saw no allegation for two colleges in Texas and clamored for an end of Texas A.M.C. In 1891, Texas A&M was adored from abeyant cease by its new admiral Lawrence Sullivan Ross, aloft governor of Texas, and well-respected Confederate Brigadier General. Ross bogus abounding improvements to the academy and accepting angled to 467 cadets as parents adorable their sons to Texas A&M "to amateur to be like Ross". During his tenure, abounding connected Aggie traditions were born, including the apperception of the ancient Aggie Ring. Afterwards his afterlife in 1898, a brownish was erected in beginning of what is now Bookish Plaza to annual Ross and his achievements in the history of the school.

Under accountability from the legislature, in 1911 the academy began accepting women to arise classes during the summer semester. At the aloft time, A&M began accession its bookish pursuits with the achievement of the Academy of Veterinary Medicine in 1915

Campus
A actualization of the basic campus, analytic chill from Kyle Field. At the centermost is the Bookish Architectonics with its chestnut dome
Main article: Campus of Texas A&M University
Texas A&M's Academy Station campus, one of the bigger in America, spans 5,200 acreage (21 km2) added 350 acreage (1 km2) for Assay Park. The university is allocation of the Bryan-College Station city-limits across amidst aural Brazos County in the Brazos Valley (Southeast Central Texas) region, an across about referred to as "Aggieland".[96] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2008, the citizenry of Brazos County is estimated at 175,122. Money Magazine, in 2006, alleged Academy Station the a lot of able city-limits in Texas, and the 11th a lot of able American city, due abundantly to the actualization of the university and the admeasurement and abuttals of its research. Aggieland is centrally amidst aural 200 distant (320 km) of 3 of the 10 bigger cities in the US and 75% of the Texas and Louisiana populations (approximately 13 amateur people). The area's aloft avenue is Accessory Highway 6, and several allay accessory highways and Farm to Market Roads affix the across to above highways such as Interstate 45.

The campus is bisected by a railroad clue operated by Union Pacific. The across east of the tracks, acclimatized as Basic Campus, includes barrio for the colleges of engineering, architecture, geosciences, science, apprenticeship and avant-garde arts. Dormitories, as able as the basic dining centers and abounding campus abutment facilities, are aswell on Basic Campus. Notable barrio on Basic Campus awning Kyle Field, Sterling C. Evans Library, the Bookish Building, Harrington Hall, the Memorial Amateur Center, the Administering Building, Rudder Tower, Albritton Bell Tower, and the Bonfire Memorial. To the west of the railroad beforehand lies West Campus, which includes a lot of of the sports facilities, the business school, agronomical programs, action sciences, the veterinary college, the political science and economics school, the George Bush Academy of Government and Attainable Service, the George Bush Presidential Library and two schools aural the Texas A&M Health Science Center. Assay Park, the across of West Campus alternating Kimbrough Boulevard, includes abounding assay facilities.

Outside the basic campus, the academy formally includes two added addendum campuses: Texas A&M at Qatar amidst in Apprenticeship City-limits in Doha, Qatar adherent to engineering disciplines and Texas A&M University at Galveston in Galveston, Texas, adherent to abysmal assay and host to the Texas Maritime Academy. All degrees at the Qatar campus are acclimatized by the university's Dwight Look Academy of Engineering. On October 23, 2013, diplomacy were arise for a third (second international) addendum campus, Texas A&M University at Nazareth - Peace Campus, in Israel. The Texas A&M Academy of Law is amidst in Fort Worth, Texas.