Claiming "to have grown 602% over 50 years" is a bit misleading. Texas A&M College Station is famous for playing games with regard to their enrollment to be able to counter the "UT's little brother" slur with "but look at our enrollment."

Does anyone (other than aggys) think a bigger enrollment is really a meaningful metric? Does anyone (other than aggys) believe TAMU College Station has an academic advantage over Harvard, UC Berkley or UT Austin because they claim an inflated enrollment figure? A soaring student/teacher ratio (over 23%), slipping in the USNWR academic rankings every year, declining institutional funding per student, one-third of all students completing two or more years of their education at a junior college and a 70% admission rate are not much to brag about.

The TAMU reported enrollment figure includes students who have never been within 12,000 miles of College Station, Texas as being on the College Station, Texas campus. The TAMU enrollment numbers include their Ft. Worth law school, the TAMU Galveston campus, the jihadi diploma mill in Doha, Qatar (that is located right next to a radicalized Islamic mosque) and five separate health science centers.

It also includes quite a number of part time students, over 11% of actual College Station enrollment.

A more accurate way of looking at the TAMU College Station enrollment is how the Texas legislature looks at it for funding purposes, which is on a full-time student equivalent basis. Under that metric, the latest figure for TAMU College Station enrollment is 50,386.

Seriously, how many other schools in the nation other than Texas A&M and the University of Phoenix consider as enrolled students, and grant diplomas with the school's name, to individuals who have never set foot on the campus, never sat in a classroom on campus for even a minute or even come within 12,000 miles of the campus in their life?

The actual numbers for TAMU College Station can be found on page 33 of this document: LINK

This post was edited on 3/28/17 at 9:19 am