Prairie View A & M University Overview

Prairie View A & M University is a public institution situated in Prairie View, Texas. The surrounding location of Prairie View is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

What Is Prairie View A & M University Known For?

• The doctor's degree is the highest award offered at PVAMU.
• For the 2017-2018 academic year, 83% of the faculty were full-time.

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards PVAMU has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#29	Highest Paid Electrical Engineering Graduates	College Factual
#35	Highest Paid Mechanical Engineering Graduates	College Factual

Where Is Prairie View A & M University?

Contact details for PVAMU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	Fm 1098 Road & University Drive, Prairie View, TX 77446
Phone:	936-261-3311
Website:	www.pvamu.edu
Facebook:	http://facebook.com/pvamu
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/pvamu

How Do I Get Into PVAMU?

You can apply to PVAMU online at: www.applytexas.org/adappc/gen/c_start.WBX?s_logon_msg=Y

Admission Requirements for PVAMU

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into PVAMU?

PVAMU has an acceptance rate of 79%, which means that is not quite as selective as some other schools. Still, you'll need good grades and a solid application if you want to be admitted.

Approximately 33% of accepted students are men and 67% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 74%, and the acceptance rate for women is 82%.

Average Test Scores

About 79% of students accepted to PVAMU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 440 and 530. Math scores were between 430 and 520.

PVAMU received ACT scores from 46% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 14 and 20. Math scores were between 16 and 20. Composite scores were between 16 and 20.

Can I Afford Prairie View A & M University?

The overall average net price of PVAMU is $27,336. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At PVAMU, approximately 75% of students took out student loans averaging $5,646 a year. That adds up to $22,584 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at PVAMU is 12.1%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.

Prairie View A & M University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 8,524 undergraduate students at PVAMU, with 7,953 being full-time and 571 being part-time.

There are also 992 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 7,953 full-time undergraduates at PVAMU, 36% are male and 64% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Prairie View A & M University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	109
Black or African American	6,767
Hispanic or Latino	709
White	106
International Students	95
Other Races/Ethnicities	167

Geographic Diversity

Texas students aren't the only ones who study at Prairie View A & M University. At this time, 28 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 46 countries are represented at PVAMU. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Nigeria, India, and Jamaica.

Online Learning at Prairie View A & M University

In 2017-2018, 1,924 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at PVAMU has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 100th most popular in Texas for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2017-2018.

Online Growth Rankings of PVAMU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Prairie View A & M University was -11.3%. This is the #2,588 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at PVAMU regardless of major.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of PVAMU majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Criminal Justice & Corrections	1%
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting	1%

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at PVAMU ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at PVAMU.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	#85
Psychology	#250
Educational Administration	#288
Criminal Justice & Corrections	#487

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Prairie View A & M University Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Nursing	120	41	4	165
Criminal Justice & Corrections	90	10	4	104
Business Administration & Management	49	50	0	99
Health Sciences & Services	85	0	0	85
Health & Physical Education	82	0	0	82
Mechanical Engineering	67	0	0	67
General Architecture	40	25	0	65
Accounting	30	33	0	63
General Biology	61	0	0	61
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	55	0	0	55
Communication & Media Studies	51	0	0	51
General Psychology	49	0	0	49
Electrical Engineering	34	13	1	48
Chemical Engineering	45	0	0	45
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	0	44	0	44
Social Work	37	0	0	37
Educational Administration	0	29	7	36
General Agriculture	35	0	0	35
Computer Information Systems	23	12	0	35
Information Science	0	27	0	27
Construction Engineering Technology	26	0	0	26
General Engineering	0	23	0	23
Marketing	21	0	0	21
Teacher Education Subject Specific	0	21	0	21
General Family & Consumer Sciences	1	20	0	21
Sociology	10	10	0	20
Finance & Financial Management	18	0	0	18
Chemistry	12	6	0	18
Civil Engineering	15	0	0	15
Political Science & Government	14	0	0	14
Computer Engineering	11	0	0	11
History	11	0	0	11
Curriculum & Instruction	0	10	0	10
Urban & Regional Planning	0	9	0	9
Design & Applied Arts	9	0	0	9
Music	9	0	0	9
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	8	0	0	8
Management Information Systems	7	0	0	7
Special Education	0	7	0	7
General English Literature	7	0	0	7
Mathematics	7	0	0	7
Computer Engineering Technology	4	0	0	4
Electronics Engineering Technology	1	0	0	1
Drama & Theater Arts	1	0	0	1
Animal Science	0	0	0	0
Romance Languages	0	0	0	0
Physics	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	1,145	390	16	1,551

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.