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From Wikipedia...and I should say that for many Texan families, going to UT (or AM) is a family tradition.
U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Texas as the best public university in the state of Texas. In its 2008 rankings,
Texas places forty-fourth among all national universities and twelfth among public universities in the U.S.[24]
U.S. News & World Report also lists UT Austin's School of Engineering among the top ten in six different fields, with an overall rank of eleven.[25]
A 2005 report by USA Today ranked UT Austin "the number one source of new Fortune 1000 CEOs".
A Bloomberg survey also ranked UT Austin's McCombs school fifth among all business schools and first among public business schools with the most number of alumni among the S&P 500 CEOs.[26]
The "Top Research Universities" list in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index of
The Chronicle of Higher Education lists UT Austin among the top ten in sixteen of the 104 individual disciplines that were evaluated as part of the study. [27]
In a 2005 report on the innovativeness of universities worldwide conducted by the Research Center for Innovation and Development of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, The University of Texas at Austin ranked fourth among 200 institutions around the world, behind Harvard University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.[28]
In its first World University Ranking in 2004, The Times Higher Education Supplement listed Texas as the fifteenth-best university worldwide. The same study ranked the university twenty-sixth worldwide in 2005 and thirty-second in 2006.[29][30]
Additionally, Texas was ranked as the thirtieth-best university in the country and 39th-best in the world by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.[31]
In 2007, The Washington Monthly, using a ranking system which stresses social factors the magazine considers important (such as how well it performs as an engine of social mobility, how well it does in fostering scientific and humanistic research, and how well it promotes an ethic of service to country) ranked UT Austin nineteenth among national American universities, higher than prestigious Ivy League universities such as Princeton and Harvard, and second in the state only to first-ranked Texas A&M University.[32]
UT Austin does not have a medical school, but has associated programs with other campuses and allied health professional programs on campus. The UT Austin College of Pharmacy, for example, is ranked second in the United States.[33]
Other overall rankings include:[34]
Number one law school in the nation for Hispanics. (September 2004 edition of Hispanic Business magazine).
Number two nationally for the School of Architecture. According to DesignIntelligence, the undergraduate architecture program was ranked second in the nation for 2006 (best in the state of Texas). The graduate architecture program was ranked sixth, and the interior design program was also ranked sixth.
Ranked eighth among U.S. public universities and twenty-seventh overall in 2006 by Newsweek magazine's August 2006 list of the top 100 global universities.
McCombs School of Business ranked thirteenth in the country on BusinessWeek magazine's list of the top undergraduate business schools.
Rated seventh in the world in the amount of cited research by faculty members, according to The Times of London, November 5, 2004, edition.
In the most recent survey by the National Research Council, seven UT doctoral programs ranked in the top ten in the nation and twenty-two departments ranked in the top twenty-five. Among Texas schools, the university ranked first in thirty of the 37 fields in which it was evaluated.[35]
McCombs School of Business ranked eighteenth by The Wall Street Journal's annual ranking of the best business schools.
Designated as "one of the best overall bargains" by The Princeton Review in its "America's Best Value Colleges" 2007 edition.
Among top twenty "best buys" within public colleges and universities, according to the 2007 Fiske Guide to Colleges.
Ranked twenty-fourth in 2007 by Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine's listing for the "100 Best Values in Public Colleges".
Ranked ninth worldwide in the 2007 Webometrics rankings.[36]
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