Texas A&M University--College Station is a public institution that was founded in 1876. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 40,103, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 5,200 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Texas A&M University--College Station's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 69.

Texas A&M, an academic and athletic powerhouse in central Texas. Once an all-men’s school called the Agricultural and Mechanical College - now shortened to A&M - the university today is coed and has offers a wide variety of majors and activities. Students can choose from more than 800 clubs and organizations, including nearly 60 fraternities and sororities. About 12 percent of students go Greek. More students, about 25 percent, play in Texas A&M intramural sports leagues, one of the largest programs in the country. The school’s varsity sports compete in the NCAA Division I Southeastern Conference, cheered on by mascot Reveille VIII, a collie. Miss Rev, as the collie is known, is also the highest-ranking member in the school’s Cadet Corps, the largest ROTC program in the nation (not including programs at service academies).