Congratulations to the faculty and leadership of Prairie View A&M University and Tarleton State University for attaining the prestigious R2 Carnegie Classification, recognizing both campuses for their high level of research activity.
Prairie View A&M University’s research expenditures topped $105 million over the past five years, placing it in the Top 10 for historically black colleges and universities across the nation. Prairie View A&M — the top producer of black engineers in Texas — has more than 20 corporate research partnerships and produced more than 50 start-up companies from its research.
Tarleton State University has spent almost $68 million in faculty-lead research over the past five years. Tarleton’s growing research portfolio includes data analytics for the federal crop insurance program that saved the U.S. Department of Agriculture more than $1.4 billion. Tarleton’s Center for Agribusiness Excellence alone has generated more than $80 million in research funds since it was founded.
This is evidence that investments by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents in faculty and facilities are paying off.
Prairie View A&M and Tarleton join Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi as Texas A&M System campuses that have achieved this hard-earned designation. Texas A&M University, the System flagship, is ranked as R1 for “very high research activity.”
