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Old 04-28-2008, 04:18 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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That being said ,Texas State is the 3rd largest university in Texas
Uh, I thought size went something like....
University of Texas
Texas A&M
University of North Texas
University of Houston
UT-San Antonio
Texas Tech
Texas State.
Am I wrong on this?
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Old 04-28-2008, 05:03 PM
cwh
 
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Originally Posted by NEsananto View Post
Uh, I thought size went something like....
University of Texas
Texas A&M
University of North Texas
University of Houston
UT-San Antonio
Texas Tech
Texas State.
Am I wrong on this?
Looks like I was wrong.

Looks like the list should look like this

UT
A&M
UNT/UH 35k each
Tech/Texas State/UTSA 28k each

Someone had told me they had taken 3rd largest and given the growth the campus has had, I did not even think twice about that being incorrect.
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Old 04-28-2008, 10:48 PM
 
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I am working on my MBA right now at SMU and I can tell you that Tx State is not very highly thought of by the admissions office here.

SMU is a fairly strong MBA program and it is difficult to get into. There are a lot of UT and A&M people here. Also, there are a lot of people out of state here. There is one Texas Tech person here and I don't know of anyone that went to Texas State.

Here are the MBA program rankings, fyi.

18 UT
29 Texas A&M
40 Rice
44 SMU

All other programs in Texas unrated

Search - Business - Best Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report
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Old 04-28-2008, 11:31 PM
cwh
 
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I am working on my MBA right now at SMU and I can tell you that Tx State is not very highly thought of by the admissions office here.

SMU is a fairly strong MBA program and it is difficult to get into. There are a lot of UT and A&M people here. Also, there are a lot of people out of state here. There is one Texas Tech person here and I don't know of anyone that went to Texas State.

Here are the MBA program rankings, fyi.

18 UT
29 Texas A&M
40 Rice
44 SMU

All other programs in Texas unrated

Search - Business - Best Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report
You are probably right on that account and hopefully the infusion of cash from McCoys will them get a good program started.
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Old 04-29-2008, 12:33 AM
 
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btw, I just wanted to say that this is the feeling I get from the admissions office regarding schools, not that I think that it is fair or accurate. Reputations, good or bad, aren't always deserved.
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Old 04-29-2008, 09:01 AM
 
Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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Texas State - formerly Southwest Texas University. Known party school.
Ah, I was wondering. I'd never heard of Texas State!
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Old 04-29-2008, 10:41 AM
 
Location: Texas Hill Country
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Howdy. I attended SWTSU from 1967 - 71, and did graduate . It's a different school now in terms of size. Yes it has a "Party School" reputation that was earned, by some students ... most Universities do to some extent. In truth, all Universities have strong and weak departments and/or colleges. When I was at SWT the chemistry department could hold it's own with anyone. The business department was considered a joke (AT THAT TIME). Keep in mind, as another poster has mentioned (a fellow Aggie I believe) that reputations change more slowly than reality.

Again, as mentioned by another, look at programs and their reputations ... not just the "School." My perspective comes from 26 years of reviewing perspective graduate students ... not from a business hiring perspective ... FWIW.
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Old 04-29-2008, 09:59 PM
 
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once known as SWT== now Texas State (like a name change will make it a top-notch school) == has three departments that are good--maybe not excellant but are quality programs--creative writing program and one in Southwest studies, a developing theater program, and a good speech pathology program (but its dean was a snot when my daughter took his intro class).

like many schools it does not have the reputation for its grads that schools like TAMU and UTA and TTech have and frankly I don't think there is the alumni network where the former graduates are in positions to hire people from their schools---
McCoys has two guys working for the company for a long, long time--from the 70s--who graduated from SWT--one of them is now an executive vp for them--my husband went to school with them at SWT when he got his business degree like they did
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Old 04-30-2008, 09:45 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Texas State (formally known as SWT) was the VD capital of Texas in the early eighties. While my dad was going to UT Austin at the time, he was friends with a nurse at SWT. The university estimates were that some 80% of the student body had some form of VD. Yuck. But hey, SWT is where George Strait got his career started. He played alot of shows in San Marcus before he broke big time.
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Old 04-30-2008, 10:24 AM
 
Location: Texas Hill Country
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Texas State (formally known as SWT) was the VD capital of Texas in the early eighties. While my dad was going to UT Austin at the time, he was friends with a nurse at SWT. The university estimates were that some 80% of the student body had some form of VD. Yuck. But hey, SWT is where George Strait got his career started. He played alot of shows in San Marcus before he broke big time.
80%? Can you supply data for this please?
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