The Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University--College Station has a rolling application deadline. The application fee is $65 for U.S. residents and $90 for international students. The 2017 Ph.D. student-faculty ratio is 3.7:1. The Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University--College Station has 412 full-time faculty on staff.
The engineering school at Texas A&M—College Station offers graduate programs in a wide variety of engineering fields including aerospace engineering and ocean engineering, as well as some less typical, interdisciplinary programs such as health physics, industrial distribution and safety engineering. The school is particularly highly ranked in biological and agricultural engineering, petroleum engineering and nuclear engineering.
There are about 3,000 graduate students and six degree areas: Master of Science (M.S.), Master of Engineering (M.E.), Master of Computer Science (M.C.S.), Master of Industrial Distribution (M.I.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and Doctor of Engineering (D.E.). The university partners with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, also located in College Station, Texas, for research projects and has many of its own labs and facilities on campus for engineering research.
To get financial aid for graduate school, Texas A&M students can apply for three types of assistantships: teaching, research, and non-teaching activities. Graduate students can apply for limited university-owned housing, though there may be a waiting list.
Notable alumni of the engineering school at Texas A&M—College Station include Steven Swanson, a retired NASA astronaut, and Arthur McFerrin, founder of chemical processing and manufacturing company KMCO.