Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University

Better known as Texas A&M University, this land-grant, sea-grant? and space-grant? institution located in [College Station]?, Texas. The university is centrally located, approximately equidistant from three of the 10 largest cities in the United States (Houston, Dallas and [San Antonio]?) and the state capital (Austin). The university’s enrollment includes approximately 44,000 students studying for degrees in 10 academic colleges.

Texas A&M, the state’s first public institution of higher education, was opened on Oct. 4, 1876 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. The school owes its origin to the [Morrill Act]? of 1862, which established the nation’s land-grant college system.

In 1963, the name of the institution was changed to Texas A&M University to more accurately reflect its expanding role as a leader in teaching, research, and public service for the state, nation and world. The initials "A" and "M" are a link to the university’s past; they no longer represent any specific words as the school’s curriculum has grown to include not only agriculture and engineering, but architecture, business?, education, geosciences?, [liberal arts]?, medicine, science, and [veterinary medicine]?.

Texas A&M is known for:

• [Leadership in Agriculture]?
• The College of [Veterinary Medicine]?
• The [Dwight Look College of Engineering]?
• The [George Bush School of Government and Public Service]?
• The [Lowry Mays College & Graduate School of Business]?
• Military Leadership ([Texas A&M Corps of Cadets]?)
• The [Texas A&M University System]?

The Texas A&M campus is home to the [George Bush Presidential Library and Museum]?.

Aggie? and Aggies? are used to describe Texas A&M students and [former students]? (Texas A&M does not call these alumni, nor graduates).

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I'm not great at these naming conventions just yet. Give me time and I'll get it. - Invictus