Texas A&M University has partnered with an energy company to try to get more students at two-year colleges to study engineering.
The Texas A&M-Chevron Engineering Academies will be at Houston Community College, Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, the Alamo Colleges in San Antonio and El Centro College in Dallas.
Those schools are the first partners in the program supported by a $5 million gift from California-based Chevron Corp.
Qualified students will be admitted to the Texas A&M Dwight Look College of Engineering. They must do the first two years at the community college level, then finish their engineering degrees at A&M in College Station.
The project was launched Thursday.
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