Aggie program attracts more diverse engineering students at lower cost | Opinion
Becoming an engineer isn’t easy. It takes intelligence, hard work and real grit.We’ve proved that at Texas A&M University through the success of our Engineering Academy Program, which allows students who have the intelligence and drive to become an engineer — even if they can’t afford to leave home and get a dorm room at College Station after high school.
Even more important, we are reaching people who might not have had the opportunity if it wasn’t for this innovative approach. For example, 33% are the first in their family to earn a college degree; 19% are female; 40% are Hispanic. But the Engineering Academy Program was still groundbreaking. We were roundly criticized when we started this. We were told, “You’re going to get inferior students. You’re going to flood the market with engineers. None of these students are going to get jobs.”
A whopping 81% of our engineering academy students remain in the program three years after taking their first class. They’re not washing out. And upon graduation, they get high paying jobs.
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