“We’re not getting the return on investment that we’re making” in higher education, said Bill Hammond, the president of the Texas Association of Business, which advocates for education reform in Texas. Over the next biennium, that investment will total about $21.8 billion.
Relative to the endowment and state funding they receive, they appear to be on the back end of other similar state flagship universities…see: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/50-state-universities-with-best-worst-grad-rates/