KINGSVILLE (Oct. 1, 2024) — The U.S. News and World Report released its 2025 Best Colleges rankings last week, where Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) was ranked within the top 7 percent of universities in the country in terms of social mobility. The university is No. 11 in Social Mobility among public universities in Texas and No. 1 among four-year institutions in the Coastal Bend.
The rankings also place A&M-Kingsville as a Top-20 public school in Texas, coming in at No. 16, the third-highest ranking Texas A&M University System behind Texas A&M (No. 2) and Prairie View A&M (No. 15).
“When students choose Texas A&M University-Kingsville, they are choosing a world-class education that will set them on a pathway to multigenerational prosperity,” Texas A&M-Kingsville President Dr. Robert Vela Jr. “Our ranking as one of the top institutions in the nation for social mobility is more than a point of pride for us, it is an affirmation of our deeply-rooted commitment to transforming the lives of our students and moving South Texas forward.”
Social Mobility was assessed by how successful universities were in enrolling disadvantaged students who were awarded Pell Grants of which a vast majority are awarded to students whose gross family incomes are less than $50,000.
Social mobility was assessed by evaluating two factors: a university’s Pell recipient graduation rates and Pell graduation performance, which compared six-year graduation rates among students who received Pell assistance and those who did not.
Unlike the 2024 rankings, graduation rates of first-generation students were not incorporated in the 2025 edition.
Elsewhere in the rankings, TAMUK is among the top 24% of universities nationwide (both public and private).
The U.S. News ranked 1,500 U.S. four-year bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the nation, with ranking methodology considering a school’s academic data, enrollment figures and degree completion rates of students.
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