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The Department of Soil and Crop Sciences offers a Graduate Program that equips students for professional roles in research, academia, extension services, agribusiness, and agricultural operations management. Our faculty specialists cover diverse disciplines including biological sciences, biotechnology, cereal chemistry, crop genetics and breeding, extension technology, plant physiology, cytogenetics, ecosystem stewardship, environmental physics, environmental studies, soil environmental science, toxicology, genetics, invasive weed control, microbiology, molecular biology, molecular genetics, physical sciences, plant biochemistry, protein chemistry, quantitative plant genetics, soil chemistry, soil nutrition, soil formation and classification, soil hydrology, soil microbiology, soil mineralogy, soil physics, turfgrass studies, turf management, urban ecosystem stewardship, water resource quality, watershed stewardship, and weed control sciences.
You are an international graduate applicant if you:
are not a citizen or permanent resident of the United States (or applicant for permanent residency)
AND
you have not graduated from a Texas high school after three years in residence in Texas
AND
hold a bachelor’s or professional degree (or equivalent)
English proficiency can also be demonstrated by:
Minimum TOEFL i-BT score of 80 (in person or Home Edition) from a test date within two years (Texas A&M University does not accept the MyBest TOEFL score), or
Minimum TOEFL Essentials score of 8.5, or
Minimum IELTS Academic test score of 6.0 overall band (Texas A&M University does not accept the IELTS General test), or
GRE Verbal Reasoning score of at least 146 (subject to departmental approval), or
GMAT Verbal Score of at least 22 (subject to departmental approval), or
Acquiring alternative verification during the admission process from the Graduate and Professional School via a departmental request.