The target enrollment for new graduate students is currently set at 15+ students per year. Most incoming graduate students are supported by Teaching Assistant positions for the undergraduate genetics labs. Other students are supported from Regents' Fellowships awards. Travel grants are awarded once a semester (including summer), which allow students to attend and present their work at scientific meetings around the country. The graduate program currently has 65 students from the United States and around the world, including students from Canada, China, Colombia, France, India, Russia and Venezuela.

"Having attended Texas A&M as an undergraduate, I was already familiar with the campus and faculty. I started looking into different graduate schools a year before I graduated, so by the fall of my senior year in college I had narrowed down my choices. After visiting a couple of other schools, my decision to stay at Texas A&M was made after much deliberation. I felt that, considering my interests, this would be the best way to go for me. Other deciding factors included the friendliness and helpfulness of other students; students who graduated from the program seemed to be doing very well - and I suppose in some way it was a "gut feeling" as well!" - Candice Brinkmeyer
Ph.D. student