Texas A&M’s president issues a report updating the university’s economic impact.
The numbers promoted by Mark Welsh says in the 2022-23 fiscal year, A&M’s statewide impact was $22.3 billion dollars. That takes into account university operations, construction, research and entrepreneurial activities, and spending by current and former students and visitors.
During the same period, Welsh says A&M’s economic impact in the Brazos Valley was $3.5 billion, including nearly $1 billion related to operations at the College Station campus.
Welsh wrote that A&M is responsible for one out of every four jobs in the Brazos Valley and the university generates more than 18 percent of the gross regional product in the seven county area.
And Welsh reports over the past ten years, A&M has grown at a rate double that of the average of all other public universities in Texas.

