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Academic Plaza. The campus of Texas A&M University, also known as Aggieland, is situated in College Station, Texas, United States. Texas A&M is centrally located within 200 miles (320 km) of three of the ten largest cities in the United States and 75% of the Texas and Louisiana populations.
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or TAMU) 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.
In the 1990s, College Station and Texas A&M University drew national attention when the George Bush Presidential Library opened in 1997. Attention was drawn again in 1999, when 12 people were killed and 27 injured when the Aggie Bonfire collapsed while being constructed .
The founding member of the A&M System is Texas A&M University, established in 1876. Prairie View A&M, also established in 1876, is an HBCU.The A&M System, like all schools in Texas was racially segregated by state law, from its founding until the 1960s. [6]
Texas A&M University started producing teachers in 1880 when F.F. Bledsoe became the first former student to record his occupation as “teacher” in the Association of Former Students’ directory. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1913, the first course leading to teacher certification was offered in the Department of Horticulture. [ 2 ]
Founded as the Texas A&M College of Medicine in 1977, the charter class of 32 students began their medical training on Texas A&M University's campus. 1981 marked the year the first medical degrees were awarded, and since then, more than 2,258 physicians have graduated from Texas A&M School of Medicine.
In the fall of 2014, Texas A&M University in College Station started its pharmacy program and admitted an inaugural class of 33 student pharmacists to the Doctorate of Pharmacy program. Effective September 1st, 2017, Texas Education Code § 89.051 requires the board of regents to have a pharmacy college as a component of the Texas A&M Health ...
Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) is an ocean-oriented branch campus of Texas A&M University offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Students enrolled at Texas A&M University at Galveston, known affectionately as 'Sea Aggies', share the benefits of students attending Texas A&M University (TAMU) campus in College Station .