Texas A&M University is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. Today, it is a research-intensive flagship university dedicated to sending Aggie leaders out into the world prepared to take on the challenges of tomorrow.

The letters "A&M" originally stood for Agricultural and Mechanical, but today they no longer explicitly stand for anything. Texas A&M University was established in 1876 as a military institution, and the term "Aggie" began to be used in the 1920s. In 1949, when the yearbook changed its name from The Longhorn to Aggieland, Aggie became the official student body nickname.

Texas A&M University is the states first public institution of higher education and is among the nations largest universities. The main campus in College Station is home to more than 69,000 students, and another 5,200 are at the branch campuses in Galveston and Qatar and at the School of Law, Higher Education Center at McAllen, and Health Science Center locations across Texas.

With 133 undergraduate degree programs, 175 masters degree programs, 92 doctoral degree programs, and 5 first professional degrees as options for study, Texas A&M is full of possibilities. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Texas A&M is also a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), as designated by the U.S. Department of Education.