Texas A&M
University-College Station
Public Research University in College Station, TX. Six-year graduation rate 84%. Median 10-year earnings $72,097.
A decade after enrolling, the median Texas A&M University-College Station student earns $72,097 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. 84% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation is $17,804, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.25 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Graduation rate 84% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Texas A&M University-College Station admits 57% of applicants and is genuinely selective — roughly two in five applicants are turned away. The applicant pool is large — 54,669 in the most recent cycle — so the published rate reflects genuine competition rather than a small-sample quirk. About 40% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range. Read the score bands below as the middle 50% of submitted scores, not a threshold to clear.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 580–690 | 8,888 (79%) |
| SAT Math | 570–710 | |
| ACT Composite | 25–31 | 2,328 (21%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 84% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. 94% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 20:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. With 59,933 undergraduates, this is a large institution — expect the administrative scale and the range of offerings that come with it.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 59,099 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $21,437 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $12,784 at the $0–30k band to $30,660 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 57% of students at an average of $11,648. Federal borrowing reaches 26% of students.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 12,055 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $12,784 |
| $30–48k | $13,317 |
| $48–75k | $17,435 |
| $75–110k | $26,520 |
| $110k+ | $30,660 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 15,356 of these 59,099 students, totalling $92,232,017 — an average of $6,006 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Brazos County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)