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A lot of people at UT commute from other parts of the city, not only from West Campus.
I know that, but it still has a thriving campus life and a VERY large student population which lives on campus or near the campus. No one in their right mind who's been to college would consider UT to be a commuter school!
I can find sand and water anywhere, when i go to a beach i want action and lively atmosphere. The only beaches in Florida that I found this was Miami beach and Ft. Lauderdale. The Tampa Bay beaches were utterly boring.
Obviously you haven't been to that many beaches in FLA. I'll name 2 or 3 more livel beaches: Hollywood Beach, Daytona Beach, Delray Beach.
Define "commuter school". Because last time I checked, a commuter school is a university where a large majority of students live off campus and commute to school (car, bus, bike, walk, etc.). In that regard UT, UCLA, Berkeley, USF, etc and most large public universities in urban settings are commuter schools.
BTW, USF is a Tier 1 National University. Not as high as UT, but still in the same peer group.
LOL @ UT UCLA and Berkeley as commuter schools. Definitely not.
As stated before, USF was traditionally known as a commuter school. A quick search on google for this will turn up many results.
USF is not a peer of UT at all. Don't even try it. Using your logic, USF is peer of Harvard and MIT as well. UT's only peers are UCB, UCLA, Michigan, UVA, UNC etc. This is who they compete with for enrollment, academic posts, research funding, etc. If anything, the only peer in Florida UT-Austin has is University of Florida, though FSU is a flagship as well hence the increased higher price of state tuition at these public schools. USF only recently moved to flagship status and is certainly on the rise, but just isn't there yet.
LOL @ UT UCLA and Berkeley as commuter schools. Definitely not.
As stated before, USF was traditionally known as a commuter school. A quick search on google for this will turn up many results.
USF is not a peer of UT at all. Don't even try it. Using your logic, USF is peer of Harvard and MIT as well. UT's only peers are UCB, UCLA, Michigan, UVA, UNC etc. This is who they compete with for enrollment, academic posts, research funding, etc. If anything, the only peer in Florida UT-Austin has is University of Florida, though FSU is a flagship as well hence the increased higher price of state tuition at these public schools. USF only recently moved to flagship status and is certainly on the rise, but just isn't there yet.
Your argument has nothing to do with the definition of commuter school but thanks for trying. You actually haven't even said what do you mean by commuter school but I guess it's along the line of academically inferior.
Do you know who was the research team in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? USF College of Marine Science.
It's funny how you open USF home page and it states it's one of the top 63 public research universities as indicated by the Carnegie Foundation, member of a BCS conference, etc..
BTW, at USF all freshmen are required to live on campus. Something that UT doesn't do. So much for commuter school, whatever that means to you.
Not to mention, that a poster who attended both just confirmed that actually USF has a broader pool of students.
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