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Old 09-01-2010, 12:13 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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A&M admitted women for the first time in 1963.

Message from the President (http://www.aggiewomen.org/presidentsmessage.html - broken link)

It appears for the Fall 2009 undergrads were 48% female.

http://www.tamu.edu/oisp/student-rep...-certified.pdf

I don't think the UT engineering program ranking of #9 in 2010 is materially different than the #12 for A&M. (US News ranking). Both rank very high as engineering schools and well above other national schools, private or public.

UT has long had the higher ranking business school, but A&M continues to invest and its quality is rising.

A&M's career center posts every semester the job offers made to its graduates. It is interesting data - regardless of your interest in A&M or UT. Below is a link just to engineering grads. If you want to make money with a bachelor's degree - study petroleum or chemical engineering. The average offer this spring for a B.S. in petroleum engineering was $82K. Chemical engineers were offered almost $71K.

Survey Results for Texas A&M University Post Graduation Plans<br />Spring 2010 (Generated 07/09/2010)

For those that think A&M emphasizes the military - it is a bit of a myth these days. Enrollment in the Corps is declining slowly (now about 1800) and represents less than 5% of undergraduate enrollment. The Corps is of course very visible - as any group wearing uniforms would be. Many traditions are rooted in its military history - but that's a fact - its history, and is part of the culture. If you don't like it or appreciate it - that's OK.
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Old 09-01-2010, 12:22 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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BTW - specific to the topic of computer science. There is a reason the graduates from each program might have a different profile.

At UT, computer science is part fo the college of natural science - where math also lives.

At A&M, computer science is part of the college of engineering. That means it shares the dean, funding, philosophy, etc. of the engineering programs at A&M. These programs, by and large, are focused on practical application of the curriculum.

When I recruited CS graduates on both campuses about ten years ago the recruiting experience was vastly different. Not the students so much - but the process of scheduling and conducting interviews via the College of Natural Science at UT vs. the Career Center at A&M. There are very smart CS grads at both schools.

I was told that A&M originally chose to put CS in the college of engineering because the state of Texas funded engineering programs at a higher $/hour level than for science programs. UT's CS program is probably older - and most CS programs originally were outgrowths of math programs ("computation").
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