Texas A&M University-Victoria

Public · Moderately Selective · TX

School data & stats

TypePublic

LocationTX · South

SettingUrban

Undergrads2,513

Student:faculty15:1

Outcomes

4-yr grad rate14.1%

6-yr grad rate26.4%

Drop-out rate34.9%

Study abroad—

Cost

In-state tuition$7k

Out-of-state tuition$17k

Application fee—

Community

Racial diversity75%

Gender diversity61.8%

International2.9%

Identity—

Overview

Texas A&M University-Victoria is a public university in the Texas A&M System serving the Crossroads region of south Texas, between Houston, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi. It began decades ago as an upper-division institution offering junior, senior, and graduate coursework to students who had completed community-college work locally, and only in the past decade expanded into a full four-year university with a growing freshman class. The student body still reflects that history, with a large share of transfer students and working adults alongside traditional undergraduates.

Academics

Programs are practical and career-oriented, concentrated in business, education, criminal justice, and nursing and health sciences, with degree paths built around close articulation agreements with area community colleges such as Victoria College. Class sizes are small and instruction is teaching-focused rather than research-driven, with faculty generally accessible outside class.

Campus & student life

Victoria is a mid-sized south Texas city rather than a college town, so the university's culture leans commuter, though on-campus housing and a more traditional student population have grown as the four-year mission has matured. Student life is modest in scale compared with larger state schools.

Worth knowing

The university also operates an instructional site in Katy, near Houston, extending its degree-completion programs to students in the Houston metro who cannot easily reach Victoria. Many students are first-generation or balancing work and family alongside coursework.

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Admissions

Acceptance rate95.9%

Enrolled mid-50%—

Test policynot used

Rec letters0

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

Applying