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Galveston, Qatar, Israel, & Law School are all branches.

I don't know why colleges do this when talking about enrollment.

Arkansas has a medical school in Little Rock and a second Law school branch down there. The med school kids can get student tickets to football games (or they could when I was in school) but they aren't included in "University of Arkansas" enrollment.

Your main campus is your enrollment. When you start listing other campuses elsewhere in your official enrollment, it's because you're trying to seem larger than you really are.

We even have a small satellite branch of the med school in Fayetteville with <300 students right now but it isn't included in the official enrollment figures.

A&M Galveston, Qatar, and Israel are different than the other schools in the system. In each of those schools, students transfer back and forth without penalty. The Qatar and Israel deals are recruiting tools. So you can do your first two years at home as an international student and your last two in Texas, or students from the main campus can go overseas for 1 or 2 years. TAMU Galveston is different because it was part of A&M before A&M was made a system. The law school is a new acquisition, so I don't know its status.

I agree the numbers on the main campus should be the only one used in these types of things. A&M throws in the others, because that is how the campuses are managed financially. Whereas the rest of the system schools are managed financially and operationally similar to the University of Texas system. The entire system has roughly 150k students while the Texas system has over 200k students. Texas has done a better job with their system schools, particularly over the last 20-25 years.