U of H - top tier status (Rice: how much, private school)

[nikku]

Originally Posted by dcoolbro

Yep and the Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Illinois Chicago was surrounded by highrise ghetto projects for decades, yet it was still a top tier school. And so the neighborhood doesn't make a difference on the quality of the school. But the projects were recently torn down and replaced by nice apartments, starbucks, bookstores and student housing. That could happen in third ward at some point.

Yeah exactly, I think the school changes the neighborhood, not the other way around.

[jluke65780]

Baylor in Waco is just less than a mile from East Waco (The ghetto part of Waco).

There is lots of underrated universities in TX that don't get the recognition they deserve.

[jluke65780]

Originally Posted by Spade

The problem is comparing a metro of Houston size to the metro of San Antonio and Austin size. When you compare Houston to other cities of similar sizes, it slightly lags. It's way behind NY, Chicago, and Los Angeles. But Even Washington, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. I think Houston desperately needs for UH to improve it's status. Maybe it will attract more out of state students. But I do agree with MommiePreMad. HISD needs to start preparing their students much better than they are doing now for college.

True. We do have PV and Sam Houston just outside the city though, but Houston could really use another 4 year school. I really like how ATL offers so many schools all close to the city.

[XodoX]

I don't think they even consider to build another College right now.

[Mr. Football]

Originally Posted by nikku

UH is the most underrated university in Texas. The business school is very good (my wife, who graduated with honors from UT's business school wants to get her MBA from UH--and for good reason: Where We Rank); current rankings have UH Law Center as #2 in Texas (Top 2010 Law School Rankings) though how accurate that is, I don't know--US News currently has them ranked #55 nationally; #3 nationally in hospitality management; #2 nationally in diversity; Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning faculty; outstanding science and math departments; outstanding architectural department; the list goes on.
The one big knock against UH is that it is a commuter school (a big part of the reason for the "Cougar High" perception). There are very few out of state or even out of town students that attend. There are a number of factors that play into that, but certainly it shouldn't prevent UH from making a push to achieving tier 1 status.

The folks at UH may want to do some fact checking before they roll off the accolades on their website. On their Business School page it says

"Bauer recently ranked #40 in BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the top public undergraduate schools of business in the U.S."

False information. Here's the article on Businessweek

[XodoX]

oh well, even went down from 2008. Shouldn't have happened if they really have those big plans. At least a B in teaching quality, even an A in Job palcement

[dv1033]

East End is slowly turning around. When they put the light rail through there it will cause land prices to rise. It will have the unfortunate effect of displacing some of the lower income residents but I am sure some of them will be able to cash in.

[Mr. Football]

Still pretty good, though. Being in Houston is going to really help UH in its quest to become Tier One.

[nikku]

Originally Posted by Mr. Football

The folks at UH may want to do some fact checking before they roll off the accolades on their website. On their Business School page it says

"Bauer recently ranked #40 in BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the top public undergraduate schools of business in the U.S."

False information. Here's the article on Businessweek

That article on business week includes public and private universities. Bauer was ranked #40 out of public universities. And #2 in the nation for entrepreneurship.

[XodoX]

Well, #40 and 87 is a big difference.