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[[File:Engineeringbuilding001a.jpg|left|thumb|Engineering Building as seen from West Avenue B on the campus of Texas A&M University-Kingsville]]
 
Texas A&M–Kingsville consistently ranks among the country's top 10 producers of [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]] engineers and has the only accredited program in natural gas [[Petroleum engineering|engineering]] in the United States.{{fact}} TheIn Texas Legislature approved and funded the creation and construction of the2006, [[Texas A&M Health Science Center Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy]], opened as the first professional school of any kind at any university south of [[San Antonio]], which opened in the fall of 2006. In addition, the university offers the only professional degree in ranch management in the United States.{{fact}}
 
The Center for Urban Education at the [[University of Southern California]] recently identified Texas A&M University–Kingsville as one of the top 25 Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in America. The school is recognized as being "potential exemplary, or model, of effective practices for increasing the number of Latina and Latino bachelor’s degree holders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics – known by the acronym STEM." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://cue.usc.edu/news/NSF-Report.pdf|title=NFS Report:Layout 1|accessdate=2010-11-27|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106003032/http://cue.usc.edu/news/NSF-Report.pdf|archivedate=January 6, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Texas A&M University–Kingsville ranks 43rd out of American colleges and universities in bachelor's degrees awarded to [[Hispanic]]s according to the [[Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education|Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine]]. The magazine also determined that the school ranks seventh in the nation for agriculture degrees and fifth in multi/interdisciplinary studies.<ref>{{cite web|last=Alford|first=Steven|url=http://www.caller.com/news/2010/jun/07/texas-am-university-kingsville-ranked-in-top-50/|title=A&M-Kingsville, A&M- Corpus Christi rank high in service to Hispanics » Corpus Christi Caller-Times|publisher=Caller.com|accessdate=2010-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hispanicoutlook.com/top100.htm|title=Hispanic Outlook|publisher=Hispanic Outlook|accessdate=2010-11-27|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709213943/http://www.hispanicoutlook.com/top100.htm|archivedate=July 9, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>