The College of Liberal Arts serves as a cornerstone of Texas A&M University.

Faculty and graduate student scholarship in liberal arts disciplines provides a base for understanding the human condition, for the choices we make individually and collectively, and for research and teaching in professional fields.

The College offers an array of courses in social and behavioral sciences, humanities, and the performing arts, and is a major source of international education.

Twelve departments make up the largest collegiate faculty on campus and the professors are dedicated to ensuring quality education for a dynamic, evolving student body.

The College of Liberal Arts recognizes the goals set forth in Vision 2020- to attain national prominence, to extend the international reach of faculty and students, and to support diversity

Liberal Arts Facts:

6,142 majors - confers more bachelor degrees than any other college (approximately 2,000 annually)

43,000 + living alumni, 61 percent of whom have been graduated since 1990

360 tenured or tenure-track faculty— among the largest on campus

A budget of more than $50 million—augmented by $ 10.1 million in competitively awarded extramural funding

An income of over $1.5 million from permanent endowments that total more than $30 million

10 endowed chairs, 23 endowed professorships, and 16 endowed faculty and graduate fellowships

source: 2009-2010 Liberal Arts Fact Sheet