The College of Arts and Sciences is central to Texas A&M's mission to develop and transfer new knowledge through research. Our faculty, students, and research staff are driven by the spirit of discovery and dedicated to expanding the frontiers of scholarship, from the physical and social sciences to languages and the humanities.
Research conducted at Texas A&M generated annual expenditures of more than $1.148 billion in fiscal year 2021, paced by research grants in the life and earth sciences. Texas A&M ranked 14th in the most recent National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development Survey based on expenditures of more than $1.131 billion in fiscal year 2020. The College of Arts and Sciences is responsible for more than $140 million of that research, including millions in indirect cost return that is reinvested in new and continuing projects.
