KINGSVILLE (September 24, 2025) — The U.S. News and World Report released its 2026 Best Colleges rankings this week, where Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) was ranked as a Top Performer in Social Mobility. The university is No. 12 in Social Mobility among public universities in Texas (No. 15 overall) and No. 2 within the Texas A&M System.
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.
The rankings also place A&M-Kingsville as a Top-25 public school in Texas, coming in at No. 24, the third-highest ranking in the Texas A&M University System behind Texas A&M (No. 3) and Prairie View A&M (No. 23).
The U.S. News evaluated more than 1,700 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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