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TAMIU

Texas A&M International University

Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas celebrates offers not only for the students of the Laredo Region, but for
its 50th anniversary with the motto “A World of Difference” and our students from multiple countries around the world. By
solid growth of today having 8,453 enrolled students. Similarly, celebrating “A World of Difference” in its fiftieth anniversary,
this celebration is supported by a year of activities, which TAMIU celebrates the positive change in the lives of our more
began in August 2019 with the inauguration of its most recent than 29 thousand graduates, as well as in the economy and
building, the Center for Academic Innovation (AIC), with three society of our great binational region.
floors, in which $ 68 million were invested of dollars.
History
This prestigious institution started in August of 1970 as “A&I
University at Laredo” and in September of 1977 it became
“Laredo State University”. On September 1, 1989 it became a
member of The Texas A&M University System and was named
Texas A&M International University in 1993.
The 74th Texas Legislature approved an expansion to four-year
status in the Fall of 1995, further authorizing the University to
develop joint degree programs with Mexican and Canadian
institutions of higher education. Additional authorization since
has permitted the development of doctoral level programs.
Recognitions
In the last three years, four independent studies have ranked
TAMIU among the top 20 universities in the United States for
the socioeconomic mobility of its graduates, who ten years
after graduating go from being in the lowest 40% income to
be among the 40% higher expenses. This can be understood
as part of the student body goes from being almost in poverty
to being middle or upper-middle class.
Another recent study places TAMIU as the ninth university in
Texas to estimate a global income for its graduates of more
than a million dollars after a professional career of forty years.
A difference to the future. Academic Innovation Center, Texas A&M
This is the type of impact and transformation that TAMIU

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