Company Profile
Texas A&M University College Station
Company Overview
The INFO Department in the Mays School of Business at Texas A&M has 16 tenured/tenure-track and 11 clinical faculty, 8 lecturers, 440 undergraduate majors, 170 MS-MIS students, and 10 doctoral students. Collectively, the faculty have the second most coauthorships among all schools world-wide in Production and Operations Management. Based on the lifetime publication of current faculty publications, A&M ranks 3rd in publishing in Production and Operations Management, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Journal of Operations Management worldwide. Many faculty hold editorships of major journals and prominent leadership positions in the academy.
The Mays Business School recently celebrated its 50th anniversary and offers an excellent research environment and modern facilities in both College Station and downtown Houston. Its undergraduate, MBA, and executive programs are rated by U.S. News and World Report and Forbes as top-25 public business programs (http://mays.tamu.edu/rankings/). Besides having a large and increasingly growing endowment, the Center for Executive Development provides a robust source of revenue to support research (including chairs and professorships) and other initiatives, such as a refresh and upcoming expansion of the building in which the college is housed. The college also supports research through several different internal grant programs, research subject pools, and a state-of-the-art research laboratory.
The College Station-Bryan metro area has a population of 250,000, a low cost of living (including no state income taxes), excellent schools, very low crime, and excellent health care. The College Station airport is served by United and American Airlines. College Station is a 1.5 hour drive to Houston, 2 hours to Austin, and 3 hours to Dallas-Fort Worth.
Company History
Texas A&M is the state's first public institution of higher education. With a student body of more than 59,000 and more than 5,200 acres on the College Station campus, Texas A&M is also among the nation's largest universities. Our origins, however, are much humbler: we owe our existence to the Morrill Act, approved by the United States Congress on July 2, 1862. This act provided for donation of public land to the states for the purpose of funding higher education whose "leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and mechanic arts."
The State of Texas agreed to create a college under the terms of the Morrill Act in November 1866, but actual formation didn't come until the establishment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas by the Texas state legislature on April 17, 1871. A commission created to locate the institution accepted the offer of 2,416 acres of land from the citizens of Brazos County in 1871, and instruction began in 1876. Admission was limited to white males, and, as required by the Morrill Act, all students were required to participate in military training.
Texas A&M underwent many changes in the 1960s under the presidency of Gen. James Earl Rudder. Under his tenure the college diversified, opening its doors to African-Americans and formally admitting women. Participation in the Corps of Cadets was also made voluntary. In 1963, the Texas state legislature officially renamed the school to Texas A&M University, with the "A" and "M" being a symbolic link to the school's past but no longer officially standing for "Agricultural and Mechanical."
Since that time, Texas A&M has flourished to become one of the nation's premier research universities. Along with the University of Texas and Rice, Texas A&M is one of only three Tier 1 universities in the state. In 1971 and 1989, respectively, Texas A&M was designated as a sea-grant and a space-grant institution, making it among the first four universities to hold the triple distinction of land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant designations.
While membership in the Corps of Cadets became voluntary in 1965, the Corps has nonetheless continued to play a key role in the university. The Corps is often referred to as the "Keepers of the Spirit" and "Guardians of Tradition." Texas A&M remains one of only six senior military colleges, and the Corps of Cadets is the largest uniformed body outside the national service academies. As such, it has historically produced more officers than any other institution in the nation other than the academies.
The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum opened in 1997 on west campus, making Texas A&M one of only a few universities to host a presidential library on their campus. President Bush maintained an active role in the university, hosting and participating in special events organized through the library.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
With membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities, Texas A&M seeks to attract the best and brightest faculty who exemplify the highest standards in teaching, research, and scholarship.
Our distinguished faculty, which includes winners of the Nobel Prize, Wolf Prize, and National Medal of Science, as well as more than 3,500 other teachers and researchers in 19 colleges and schools, are in the classroom and laboratory every day preparing the next generation of leaders and pursuing life-changing research discoveries.
Almost 90 percent of the faculty hold doctoral degrees or terminal degrees in their field and 330 hold endowed professorships or chairs. Twenty-two faculty are members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering or Institute of Medicine.