anyone in Texas? help rank C schools in Texas! - Page 2

JWT86 · 10-06-2009, 02:56 AM

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Rice is like the best of the best here, pretty much. It's on par with Duke, Vanderbilt, etc.

UT Austin the best public school in the state, and it's academics are great, but it's ridiculously hard to get into if you're out of state. Generally very liberal, Austin is one of the few Democrat majority large cities in Texas.

This needs to be somewhat qualified. Rice is the best undergraduate college in the state, but UT-Austin is the strongest overall university. UT has greater academic breadth and depth than every other school in Texas and all of its academic and professional programs rank in the top 10-20 in the country. Business, engineering, law, public affairs, architecture, film, computer science, chemistry, physics, education, pharmacy, social work... really every department UT has is ranked among the top in the country, which is something few other universities in Texas (or otherwise) can say.

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2. What is your area of interest? If it's engineering, TAMU. If it's not, UT-Austin.

A&M is excellent in engineering (and does have programs like agricultural engineering that UT-Austin does not), but UT-Austin really does have one of the top programs in the country. In terms of faculty in the National Academy of Engineering UT has more than Rice, A&M, and every other school in Texas - combined.

LakeWashington · 10-08-2009, 02:06 PM

Non-Texan here, but any sensible person knows many schools have a strongsuit that is not widely known. For example, I understand that U of Houston's Geology/Earth Science Department is very good. Doesn't have the reputation of UT-Austin's Jackson School, but good nevertheless as it has produced many of petro-engineers and geologists.

Ranger91 · 10-13-2009, 12:02 AM

yeah, UT Dallas is definitely the best out of the c-schools. They are constantly growing, and their rankings keep getting better every year. It's a tech-oriented school, but they also have a strong business school( Top 50 MBA nationwide ) , and various other great departments and programs, such as biology and psychology. Also they have offer quite some scholarships.

Source: I go to school here

Kyle555 · 11-03-2009, 04:42 PM

Emphasis on the large gap between A&M and SMU? hmm ... Considering A&M barely outranks SMU on USNWR, and is behind SMU on other rankings from Business week, I don't think there is a huge gap. Not to mention, SMU's acceptance rate is much smaller than A&M's.

Grcxx3 · 11-03-2009, 05:45 PM

<<In Texas, those Aggies have an alumni network that is second to none. Outside of Texas, UT-Austin has a better reputation.>>

Engineering grads from A&M have a phenomenal alumni network all over the world!!!! When we were overseas - there were annual A&M parties for graduates and I was amazed at the numbers.