Research Valley

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The Research Valley sits in the metropolitan center of Texas with over 16 million people within a three hour drive. It consist of a seven county area (Brazos, Grimes, Washington, Burleson, Robertson, Madison, and Leon county) and is centered around College Station, Texas, home to Texas A&M University. The Research Valley consist of top medical facilities, highly rated primary and secondary schools, restaurants, movies, Big 12 sports, wineries, and Broadway shows on the Texas A&M University campus. Easterwood Airport offers numerous Continental and American flights daily in and out of the Research Valley.

1 Research Companies/Institutions
2 Other Notable Places
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Research Companies/Institutions

Mays Business School

Texas A&M University - approxiametly 45,000 students (8th largest university in the nation)
- Highly ranked and the largest engineering college in the U.S. - 10,000 engineering students attend Texas A&M University's Dwight Look College of Engineering
- Home to the highly ranked business college, Mays Business School.
- Declared a "Center of Excellence" by the Department of Homeland Security
- Top ten in externally funded research with over $500 Million in research
- Texas A&M is a land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant institution
- 5,200 acre (21 km²) campus located in the center of the Research Valley
Blinn College
- Bryan Campus - 15,000 students
- Brenham Campus - 9,000 students
AdVent GX
Hewlett-Packard
FoodHorizon
Lynntech, Inc.
Schlumberger
StarVision Technologies, Inc.
Texas Department of Agriculture's Pesticide Laboratory
Texas Plant Diagnostic Lab
Texas Institute for Genomic Medicine
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas Water Resources Institute
USDA Food Safety Inspection Service
VerCom Systems, Inc.
UCS