by our College Data Analytics TeamIn its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.
Prairie View A & M University was awarded 1 badge in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice & corrections.
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PVAMU is ranked #1,772 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list.
PVAMU is also ranked #91 out of 115 schools in Texas.
Prairie View A & M University has an acceptance rate of 76%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 93% 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 420 and 520.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Prairie View A & M University, this ratio is 16 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Prairie View A & M University is 82%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 73% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Prairie View A & M University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
When we say that a student has graduated on time, we mean that they have finished their bachelor's degree within four years. The on-time graduation rate at PVAMU is 14%. That's lower than the national rate of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Prairie View A & M University.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 8,372 undergraduates at PVAMU with 7,571 being full-time and 801 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $9,429 | $14,024 | $16,024 | $16,204 | $18,064 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of PVAMU, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At PVAMU, approximately 50% of students took out student loans averaging $6,520 a year. That adds up to $26,080 over four years for those students.
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See which majors at Prairie View A & M University make the most money.
Get more details about the location of 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/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 166 | $38,662 |
| Health & Physical Education | 146 | $25,594 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 144 | $31,823 |
| Nursing | 130 | $83,218 |
| General Psychology | 121 | $28,047 |
| Health Sciences & Services | 70 | $32,266 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 67 | $66,678 |
| General Biology | 65 | $28,947 |
| General Architecture | 57 | NA |
| Communication & Media Studies | 57 | $22,269 |
Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.
In 2022-2023, 4,955 students took at least one online class at Prairie View A & M University. This is a decrease from the 5,425 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 4,955 | 746 |
| 2021-2022 | 5,425 | 730 |
| 2020-2021 | 8,819 | 3,134 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,924 | 269 |
Learn more about online learning at Prairie View A & M University.
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Footnotes
*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.
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