While colleges and universities around the U.S. continue to wrestle with declining enrollments at both the undergraduate and graduate degree levels, A&M-Central Texas—with its 20 graduate degree and 10 graduate certificate programs, including a new program in public administration opening in Spring 2025—is proving to be a source of continuing optimism as growth continues.
In a report submitted to the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents this November, A&M-Central Texas reported that Fall 2024 headcount enrollment was up by 7%. Similarly, credit hour enrollment increased by 10% – signaling an increase in both the number of students and the number of courses being taken.
And, as good as that news is, university officials had even more to be proud of when it comes to enrollment in the university’s graduate school. Fall enrollment in graduate programs increased from 2023 to 2024 by 18% and a whopping 44% in the last five years. Graduate enrollment, they noted, now makes up 27% of the university’s total headcount.
Mia Coltrane, Manager in the Graduate Services Office, applauded her colleagues in the University’s Graduate School, pointing to their affordable tuition, flexible face-to-face and online programs, student friendly admissions processes, and – more importantly – the strength of graduate faculty who continue to nurture learning as well as professional and personal growth for their students.
“A&M-Central Texas believes in the potential of all of our students, and that is true in our graduate school, too,” she said. “We know that applying to a graduate program can be intimidating in some schools, and we were determined to create admissions processes that are as encouraging as our graduate programs are.”
Current graduate degree programs offered include criminal justice, English, history, homeland security, liberal studies, math, public administration in the College of Arts and Sciences; accounting, business administration, information systems, and leadership for sustainability in the College of Business Administration; and applied psychology, clinical mental health psychology, curriculum and instruction, educational leadership, higher education leadership, marriage and family therapy, school psychology, teaching, and a superintendent certificate program in the College of Education and Human Development.
The university’s institutional research data shows that from 2013 to 2023, the university has awarded 1,797 graduate degrees creating counselors, businessmen and women, cybersecurity and sustainability leaders, school district teachers and education administrators, higher education faculty and administrators, family therapists, and doctoral students and graduates in and from some of the most well-regarded universities in Texas and across the U.S.
Prospective students can reach out to the graduate school at 254.501.5900 or visit the university website at www.tamuct.edu. Spring 2025 registration begins on November 1st, and the deadline to apply for Clinical Mental Health, Applied Psychology and Marriage and Family is November 1, 2024.