Texas A&M U., College Station and Health Science Center

Rankings

Data year Earned doctorates Full-time graduate students Total R&D expenditures Research space
Rank Percentile Institutions ranked Rank Percentile Institutions ranked Rank Percentile Institutions ranked Rank Percentile Institutions ranked
2024 10 98 459 22 97.8 925
2023 4 99.4 459 22 97.7 911 6 99.2 602
2022 8 98.5 457 23 97.6 900
2021 6 98.9 447 16 98.4 908 5 99.3 583
2020 6 98.9 450 14 98.6 916
2019 8 98.4 447 22 97.7 914 5 99.3 589
2018 9 98.2 428 20 97.9 911
2017 9 98.1 425 19 98 898 7 99 575
2016 11 97.7 430 16 98.3 896
2015 8 98.4 426 16 98.3 898 7 99 570
2014
NOTES:
  • 1. See TableBuilder for the prior year data.
  • 2. Blank white cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or institution not eligible for survey.
  • 3. Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.

Data

Number of earned doctorates, by trend major field of study of recipients: 2024–15
Fields 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
All fields 742 806 782 765 772 743 730 730 684 732
  Science and engineering 641 701 667 665 657 627 607 618 544 591
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources 47 52 55 63 75 68 58 61 44 57
      Agricultural sciences 42 50 49 57 63 56 48 48 33 43
      Natural resources and conservation 5 2 6 6 12 12 10 13 11 14
    Biological and biomedical sciences 97 111 101 103 115 83 110 91 71 85
      Biochemistry and biophysics 11 9 17 17 15 12 19 16 9 16
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 26 33 29 17 22 16 26 17 11 18
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 3 . 3 1 1 4 2 2 3 1
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy 1 1 1 2 1 5 2 2 1 2
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 10 9 5 10 12 6 10 7 7 5
      Genetics and genomics 5 8 7 5 13 6 4 3 10 6
      Microbiology and immunology 5 7 3 6 10 5 9 13 4 11
      Molecular biology 3 1 2 2 4 3 3 . 5 1
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 9 11 3 7 5 5 11 3 3 6
      Pharmacology and toxicology 5 6 8 3 4 3 3 4 2 1
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 4 5 2 3 5 3 2 2 2 7
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other 15 21 21 30 23 15 19 22 14 11
    Computer and information sciences 28 16 20 19 15 10 11 14 16 10
      Computer science 19 10 16 18 15 8 10 13 15 8
      Computer and information sciences, other 9 6 4 1 . 2 1 1 1 2
    Engineering 267 306 287 255 252 265 230 236 203 219
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering 21 27 21 9 15 12 11 13 11 19
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 18 21 19 14 21 10 16 16 12 20
      Chemical and petroleum engineering 31 46 51 47 56 67 46 32 37 36
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 35 35 27 38 26 25 19 23 28 22
      Electrical and computer engineering 51 42 47 45 46 58 57 53 50 42
      Industrial engineering and operations research 23 17 13 18 8 4 5 11 8 9
      Materials and mining engineering 25 36 28 23 19 11 16 18 9 19
      Mechanical engineering 36 49 44 32 43 47 36 43 27 28
      Engineering, other 27 33 37 29 18 31 24 27 21 24
    Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences 24 41 36 28 30 31 22 22 25 27
      Geological sciences 4 14 15 9 10 12 8 6 13 14
      Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences 20 27 21 19 20 19 14 16 12 13
    Health sciences 13 13 17 17 20 17 11 18 21 13
      Pharmaceutical sciences 1 . . . . . . . . .
      Public health . 4 6 5 7 3 2 6 8 4
      Health sciences, other 12 9 11 12 13 14 9 12 13 9
    Mathematics and statistics 17 30 31 40 28 20 27 29 26 30
      Applied mathematics 2 3 1 . 2 1 6 7 9 7
      Mathematics 1 5 3 1 10 6 6 7 7 7
      Statistics 10 14 14 16 6 6 5 7 2 12
      Mathematics and statistics, other 4 8 13 23 10 7 10 8 8 4
    Physical sciences 72 63 53 66 56 54 63 66 64 59
      Astronomy and astrophysics 10 8 5 2 1 3 1 4 4 .
      Chemistry 43 41 35 50 37 33 34 38 33 35
      Physics 19 14 13 14 18 18 28 24 27 24
    Psychology 33 29 25 33 24 25 32 20 24 20
      Clinical psychology 4 6 . 6 4 7 7 4 4 2
      Counseling and applied psychology 17 13 15 20 12 12 17 9 11 8
      Research and experimental psychology 9 7 10 5 4 4 6 4 5 10
      Psychology, other 3 3 . 2 4 2 2 3 4 .
    Social sciences 43 40 42 41 42 54 43 61 50 71
      Anthropology 5 3 4 3 6 6 2 5 5 5
      Economics 12 11 5 7 13 14 13 12 20 15
      Political science and government 5 10 9 3 2 6 3 6 6 11
      Public policy analysis . . . . . . . . 1 1
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 6 6 4 12 6 9 9 12 3 20
      Social sciences, other 15 10 20 16 15 19 16 26 15 19
  Non-science and engineering 101 105 115 100 115 116 123 112 140 141
    Business 17 20 23 12 19 18 11 28 18 16
      Business 17 20 23 12 19 18 11 28 18 16
    Education 45 43 48 44 62 51 66 43 72 80
      Education leadership and administration 6 8 11 11 10 13 19 13 14 21
      Education research 30 25 25 22 33 24 28 21 33 41
      Teacher education and teaching fields 7 9 11 11 18 13 19 9 20 16
      Education, other 2 1 1 . 1 1 . . 5 2
    Humanities and arts 18 23 20 22 22 21 25 23 26 20
      Letters 7 10 6 9 13 8 6 7 6 7
      Foreign languages and literature . 3 4 1 1 2 2 3 3 3
      History 8 6 4 6 5 5 8 8 9 7
      Philosophy and religious studies 2 2 5 3 3 2 3 1 3 .
      Humanities and arts, other 1 2 1 3 . 4 6 4 5 3
    Other non-science and engineering 21 19 24 22 12 26 21 18 24 25
      Communication 9 4 8 5 4 10 11 8 8 10
      Public administration and social services . 2 1 1 . 2 . 1 1 .
      Non-science and engineering, other 12 13 15 16 8 14 10 9 15 15

NOTE:
  • . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates

Total R&D expenditures, by field: 2024–15
(Dollars in thousands)
Field 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
  All R&D fields 1,393,825 1,277,814 1,152,666 1,147,720 1,130,803 952,156 922,178 905,474 892,718 866,678
    Science 828,987 748,040 693,372 722,541 732,385 590,002 581,235 581,480 569,539 537,712
      Computer and information sciences 35,515 28,414 25,705 19,178 18,504 21,800 21,960 19,007 20,849 11,444
      Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences 122,863 125,114 122,622 106,932 107,894 113,459 115,394 115,183 113,893 113,175
        Atmospheric science and meteorology 7,752 7,010 6,600 5,452 5,637 4,338 4,330 4,640 5,660 5,704
        Geological and earth sciences 9,739 11,463 14,720 16,284 14,392 14,337 13,195 17,517 17,912 14,467
        Ocean sciences and marine sciences 100,430 101,588 95,258 78,485 79,758 85,229 86,202 80,717 77,132 79,993
        Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec 4,942 5,053 6,044 6,711 8,107 9,555 11,667 12,309 13,189 13,011
      Life sciences 526,073 464,675 435,563 487,219 502,372 351,403 342,961 349,570 329,855 320,555
        Agricultural sciences 271,948 234,915 210,583 180,671 186,922 184,299 182,651 190,264 179,063 181,658
        Biological and biomedical sciences 110,666 111,681 99,831 97,519 77,408 72,472 69,786 56,657 51,972 45,752
        Health sciences 113,197 94,371 103,670 188,730 220,948 77,896 78,732 96,928 94,790 92,900
        Natural resources and conservation 26,719 18,959 17,297 14,989 13,586 13,067 7,575 2,375 675 0
        Life sciences nec 3,543 4,749 4,182 5,310 3,508 3,669 4,217 3,346 3,355 245
      Mathematics and statistics 10,799 8,774 6,898 6,729 8,768 8,700 9,201 8,882 10,737 9,079
      Physical sciences 72,524 65,248 56,540 56,029 54,574 55,920 54,890 54,015 56,123 53,824
        Astronomy and astrophysics 4,516 3,433 4,023 11,106 7,336 6,947 6,979 6,491 7,808 1,646
        Chemistry 30,355 27,800 25,693 23,182 24,507 24,066 24,441 26,392 25,688 28,293
        Materials science 11,410 7,769 5,896 4,703 4,142 2,519 2,170 456 176 0
        Physics 23,501 23,388 19,252 16,238 17,848 21,835 19,108 17,691 17,778 18,750
        Physical sciences nec 2,742 2,858 1,676 800 741 553 2,192 2,985 4,673 5,135
      Psychology 10,353 10,488 7,635 6,546 5,248 3,538 3,159 3,510 3,444 3,666
      Social sciences 38,335 32,324 29,994 28,965 29,389 30,686 28,983 26,008 28,431 19,796
        Anthropology 2,778 2,217 2,058 2,029 3,961 2,308 1,102 887 978 0
        Economics 6,769 6,496 7,403 7,647 6,300 7,176 7,583 4,288 8,727 1,899
        Political science and government 6,427 6,419 6,627 5,725 6,638 4,548 4,985 5,680 4,857 4,534
        Sociology, demography, and population studies 3,559 1,658 2,030 2,273 2,070 2,741 1,514 2,892 1,921 1,465
        Social sciences nec 18,802 15,534 11,876 11,291 10,420 13,913 13,799 12,261 11,948 11,898
      Sciences nec 12,525 13,003 8,415 10,943 5,636 4,496 4,687 5,305 6,207 6,173
    Engineering 496,787 464,769 402,999 385,656 357,559 321,373 300,956 287,620 290,413 298,538
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering 52,905 52,758 32,301 33,837 31,963 18,379 16,987 11,045 9,434 10,639
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 43,620 39,121 27,673 39,008 20,933 21,261 18,813 16,777 14,254 11,160
      Chemical engineering 18,849 17,780 19,620 18,302 20,730 24,299 25,438 29,671 27,087 38,056
      Civil engineering 129,205 113,367 110,000 100,161 98,444 89,564 80,886 80,600 86,281 89,625
      Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering 36,715 36,668 29,267 26,886 29,379 32,688 28,454 27,255 28,969 32,830
      Industrial and manufacturing engineering 14,874 15,720 12,286 9,198 8,381 6,859 4,508 3,946 2,912 0
      Mechanical engineering 65,550 47,335 38,297 34,921 42,100 32,308 34,126 32,107 36,165 36,901
      Metallurgical and materials engineering 12,560 11,991 11,116 12,517 14,068 16,983 19,737 18,694 12,534 6,933
      Engineering nec 122,509 130,029 122,439 110,826 91,561 79,032 72,007 67,525 72,777 72,394
    Non-S&E 68,051 65,005 56,295 39,523 40,859 40,781 39,987 36,374 32,766 30,428
      Business management and business administration 15,484 12,832 11,284 9,688 10,234 9,401 8,249 8,741 7,656 7,697
      Communication and communications technologies 1,272 268 540 403 426 270 291 595 673 0
      Education 35,495 33,033 31,580 24,044 26,397 25,640 24,914 20,701 19,304 19,126
      Humanities 2,042 2,322 1,678 1,062 1,543 1,284 1,597 2,038 1,913 2,124
      Law 966 445 379 756 791 565 721 723 662 535
      Social work 5 129 355 431 248 1 142 167 42 0
      Visual and performing arts 518 392 235 114 212 185 83 109 77 0
      Non-S&E nec 12,269 15,584 10,244 3,025 1,008 3,435 3,990 3,300 2,439 946

NOTE:
  • . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
  • Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey

Total R&D expenditures, by source of funds and R&D field: 2024
(Dollars in thousands)
Field All R&D expenditures Federal government State and local government Institution funds Business Nonprofit organizations All other sources
  All R&D fields 1,393,825 582,674 285,545 394,343 36,960 54,695 39,608
    Science 828,987 376,218 159,461 226,785 14,030 28,423 24,070
      Computer and information sciences 35,515 23,014 4,472 6,813 430 144 642
      Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences 122,863 95,409 4,512 16,533 1,276 3,998 1,135
        Atmospheric science and meteorology 7,752 5,978 261 1,270 0 243 0
        Geological and earth sciences 9,739 5,487 920 1,956 771 91 514
        Ocean sciences and marine sciences 100,430 80,766 3,283 12,076 321 3,491 493
        Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec 4,942 3,178 48 1,231 184 173 128
      Life sciences 526,073 185,425 135,623 164,603 10,495 17,822 12,105
        Agricultural sciences 271,948 59,931 100,339 93,777 5,551 6,440 5,910
        Biological and biomedical sciences 110,666 68,372 8,149 23,252 2,537 5,275 3,081
        Health sciences 113,197 37,539 24,785 40,878 2,006 5,132 2,857
        Natural resources and conservation 26,719 17,818 1,858 5,973 307 519 244
        Life sciences nec 3,543 1,765 492 723 94 456 13
      Mathematics and statistics 10,799 6,743 483 3,034 0 324 215
      Physical sciences 72,524 36,114 5,611 19,988 1,571 4,037 5,203
        Astronomy and astrophysics 4,516 1,337 13 1,574 10 4 1,578
        Chemistry 30,355 14,559 909 9,063 800 3,131 1,893
        Materials science 11,410 5,623 1,090 3,516 761 128 292
        Physics 23,501 13,868 2,038 5,395 0 760 1,440
        Physical sciences nec 2,742 727 1,561 440 0 14 0
      Psychology 10,353 5,634 553 3,423 0 30 713
      Social sciences 38,335 18,414 4,841 9,092 149 1,787 4,052
        Anthropology 2,778 599 28 998 0 265 888
        Economics 6,769 3,081 623 1,880 79 356 750
        Political science and government 6,427 1,057 1,070 2,261 1 33 2,005
        Sociology, demography, and population studies 3,559 2,222 326 609 0 139 263
        Social sciences nec 18,802 11,455 2,794 3,344 69 994 146
      Sciences nec 12,525 5,465 3,366 3,299 109 281 5
    Engineering 496,787 176,573 119,643 144,955 16,865 24,297 14,454
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering 52,905 42,498 59 7,242 1,024 0 2,082
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 43,620 27,082 4,567 9,566 1,436 483 486
      Chemical engineering 18,849 7,575 380 5,914 1,595 1,532 1,853
      Civil engineering 129,205 21,343 60,353 39,870 3,007 1,885 2,747
      Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering 36,715 17,436 2,096 11,344 1,304 2,238 2,297
      Industrial and manufacturing engineering 14,874 10,024 77 3,803 204 304 462
      Mechanical engineering 65,550 22,940 19,176 19,077 1,815 641 1,901
      Metallurgical and materials engineering 12,560 8,255 436 2,713 670 230 256
      Engineering nec 122,509 19,420 32,499 45,426 5,810 16,984 2,370
    Non-S&E 68,051 29,883 6,441 22,603 6,065 1,975 1,084
      Business management and business administration 15,484 2,287 119 6,482 5,941 135 520
      Communication and communications technologies 1,272 175 27 1,020 0 32 18
      Education 35,495 19,790 3,513 11,370 78 479 265
      Humanities 2,042 635 185 998 0 11 213
      Law 966 309 50 412 0 190 5
      Social work 5 0 0 2 0 0 3
      Visual and performing arts 518 0 0 468 0 0 50
      Non-S&E nec 12,269 6,687 2,547 1,851 46 1,128 10

NOTE:
  • . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
  • Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey

Federally funded R&D expenditures, by federal agency: 2024–15
(Dollars in thousands)
Source of funds 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Federal Agencies 582,674 546,481 505,355 528,057 517,489 359,609 333,768 307,656 293,551 304,437
  DOD 99,845 88,719 52,870 59,476 40,392 27,953 25,235 18,924 17,103 26,708
  DOE 50,575 47,421 50,115 37,592 33,824 33,433 29,192 26,788 28,326 26,653
  HHS 128,235 123,004 133,931 205,735 230,038 82,965 71,076 63,921 59,456 65,224
  NASA 9,960 10,485 10,168 9,126 9,219 6,772 7,461 10,188 9,081 8,095
  NSF 144,701 142,660 137,220 111,581 108,498 114,590 114,662 105,939 100,344 98,772
  USDA 67,905 52,842 46,205 39,429 39,135 37,402 31,674 31,432 28,784 30,677
  Other 81,453 81,350 74,846 65,118 56,383 56,494 54,468 50,464 50,457 48,308

NOTE:
  • . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey

Headcount of R&D personnel: 2024–18 [temporarily discontinued]
Year
2024 . . . .
2023 . . . .
2022 . . . .
2021 . . . .
2020 . . . .
2019 13,778 2,524 11,254 .
2018 13,189 2,463 10,726 .

NOTE:
  • . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey

Science and engineering research space in academic institutions, by field: 2023–14
(Net assignable square feet in thousands)
Field, medical school space, and research animal space 2023 2021 2019 2017 2015
  All research space 3,293 3,320 3,101 3,041 2,926
    Agricultural sciences 790 858 647 602 557
    Biological and biomedical sciences 620 672 643 654 652
    Computer and information sciences 5 6 21 25 22
    Engineering 983 960 892 879 847
    Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences 119 127 44 50 60
    Health sciences 163 100 306 290 249
    Mathematics and statistics 30 30 30 30 30
    Natural resources and conservation 35 32 31 32 30
    Physical sciences 295 330 324 331 328
    Psychology 85 74 63 58 42
    Social sciences 85 88 73 56 57
    Other 84 44 28 34 53

NOTE:
  • . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
  • Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities

New construction of science and engineering research space, by field and time of construction: 2025–16
(Net assignable square feet in thousands)
Field, medical school space, and research animal space Planned to start in FY 2024 or FY 2025 Started in FY 2022 or FY 2023 Started in FY 2020 or FY 2021 Started in FY 2018 or FY 2019 Started in FY 2016 or FY 2017
  All research space 31,700 107,444 101,280 30,064 278,458
    Agricultural sciences 8,000 50,000 8,000 0 0
    Biological and biomedical sciences 0 0 0 30,064 141,374
    Computer and information sciences 0 0 0 0 0
    Engineering 8,700 37,200 93,280 0 101,827
    Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences 0 0 0 0 0
    Health sciences 15,000 20,244 0 0 12,178
    Mathematics and statistics 0 0 0 0 0
    Natural resources and conservation 0 0 0 0 23,079
    Physical sciences 0 0 0 0 0
    Psychology 0 0 0 0 0
    Social sciences 0 0 0 0 0
    Other 0 0 0 0 0

NOTE:
  • . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
  • Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities

Costs for repair and renovation of science and engineering research space in academic institutions, by field and time of repair and renovation: 2025–16
(Dollars in thousands)
Field, medical school space, and research animal space Planned to start in FY 2024 or FY 2025 Started in FY 2022 or FY 2023 Started in FY 2020 or FY 2021 Started in FY 2018 or FY 2019 Started in FY 2016 or FY 2017
  All research space 125,000 38,295 48,274 22,721 48,517
    Agricultural sciences 0 10,000 4,667 10,583 1,161
    Biological and biomedical sciences 2,000 335 2,922 0 3,779
    Computer and information sciences 0 0 0 0 33,155
    Engineering 0 8,251 32,203 3,475 3,570
    Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences 0 259 384 364 0
    Health sciences 123,000 14,000 0 1,768 2,139
    Mathematics and statistics 0 0 0 0 0
    Natural resources and conservation 0 288 0 0 0
    Physical sciences 0 5,162 7,375 5,250 4,450
    Psychology 0 0 470 1,279 263
    Social sciences 0 0 253 0 0
    Other 0 0 0 0 0

NOTE:
  • . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
  • Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities

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