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A look at 25x25 enrollment

I see people saying that 25x25 is only adding a few hundred engineering students on campus and linking this dean's report, but I think it is a little misleading. The vast majority of on campus growth has already occured.

25x25 began in 2011 and there were 8,329 undergraduate engineers at the time. Skip to 2017 and we now have 15,306 undergraduate engineering students at Texas A&M. Roughly 1,000 undergraduates have been added each year since 25x25 began.

The dean's report also states that the university as a whole is growing and that the college of engineering is not the only growing college. However, the college of engineering is growing much larger and faster than any other college. In 2011 around 1 in 5 students at A&M was an engineer. Today almost one in every three undergraduate students belongs to the college of engineering.

Undergraduate Engineering

YearEnrollmentChange% of tamuSource
20097,88220%2009
20108,158+27621%2010
20118,329+17121%2011
201211,281+2,59222%2012
201312,328+1,04724%2013
201413,947+1,61925%2014
201515,223+1,27626%2015
201614,112-1,11126%2016
201715,306+1,19427%2017

Personally I found the dean's report misleading and wanted to make sure people have all the information before forming an opinion.

Posted Mar 26, 2018, 7:55 AM UTC · edited

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scooter_reddit'15•

That’s well over double since 09, wow.

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itriedsorry'19 EE•

Thanks for compiling this, that graph definitely is misleading compared to your numbers. Especially the % of total enrollment category.

That being said, 27% is really not "almost one in every three". It's more than 1 in 4. And considering how it was 1 in 5 just a few years prior, it's shocking enough without being inflated.

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No11223456'17•

Everyone's gotta pass otherwise they won't have room for the next batch the following semester.

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chopandscrew•

So if that's the case, then most of the damage is done already? Which is funny because I bet a lot of the people on here complaining about 25x25 didn't even realize they were part of 25x25.

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You're confusing everyone will all this data. The only thing that we need to know is how many MORE students they will add to this college of engineering in college station. And that number is around ~5,000. I can compile what I understand and found from the report later on the sub. But you are right, people think it's only a few hundred, but it isn't. And that calling it "retention" makes it better. But that "retention" is actually more accurately descibed as "acceptance." Also the 5,000 that have yet to come will create a very big difference to this school.

Also it started in 2013: "The 25 by 25 initiative began in 2013 in response to the national call for more engineering graduates and our engineering advisory board’s strong support of the program. "

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Sesese9'20 CEEN•

25x25 began in 2011

25x25 started in 2013 (as stated in the dean's report that you linked) Alternate source: Source

Besides that, the trend is interesting...

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ThisKarmaLimitSucks'18 EE•

Awesome summary. I wonder what the huge dropoff was in 2016?

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itriedsorry'19 EE•

Maybe the 2000+ number from 2012 all graduated, and letting in ~1000 new each year the net is -1000

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