Texas (Austin) vs.. Michigan vs. University of Washington

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Lots of evidence… it’s everywhere. For starters, just look at the NRC rankings, or the USNWR graduate program rankings, or the London Times Rankings.

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<p>All those rankings focus on graduate programs.</p>

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The reason UT scores so low in the overall USNWR COLLEGE rankings is b/c the majority of the ranking has NOTHING to do with academic/faculty strength - all the components are based on factors like selectivity, student/faculty ratio, alumni giving, etc.

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<p>20% of the USNWR ranking does derive from “faculty resources”. However, USNWR does not measure that in the same way as graduate rankings do. USNWR looks at faculty compensation, the ratio of full time faculty and faculty with top terminal degrees, S:F ratio, and class sizes. At Rice, over 69% of classes have less than 20 students; under 8% have 50 or more. At UT, the corresponding figures are ~34% and ~25%, respectively. More than 10% of UT classes have 100 or more students. These are not very good numbers, not even compared to other prestigious state universities such as UVa, Michigan, or UNC.</p>