Public vs private

whenhen
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:38:18 +0000

No, the top privates are seen as better than the top flagship publics. It’s the same deal in California, Texas, and possibly Illinois, all of which have good to great flagships AND an outstanding private. I know few Californians who would argue that Berkeley is a better school than Stanford even though both are seen as outstanding. It’s just that in the Midwest and much of the West there’s a relative dearth of privates whose academic quality truly compares to the top two publics in each state. For instance, in Oklahoma, only the University of Tulsa can make a plausible case to be better than OU or OSU, and even then, that may only be true for a few engineering fields.