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I am rolling my eyes and laughing. TU may have more more endowment per undergraduate student and has some pretty impressive archival holdings, but it is as a small regional private school with nothing like the graduate offerings, national grants and research produced at UT, Knoxville, and actually is in fairly precipitous decline due to the inept meddling of the Kaiser foundation. It is a lesser version of Dickinson or Berea or De Pauw, but with a law school. ORU is Baylor with a lobotomy, half a step above Liberty, and along with those schools the worst educational bang for your buck in the country: Harvard prices and elevated community college quality. I much prefer Tulsa over Knoxville, but for higher ed, you have to be on crack to think that any of the Tulsa universities can compare to the big one in Knoxville. OU and UT are more comparable, even OSU. There is a chance that AAU membership -the bottom line for tier one status - is in UT's reach. I cannot see such a path for TU or ORU. We are not even talking apples and oranges, more like watermelons and grapes. Tulsa is a significantly superior city to Knoxville by nearly every metric, but higher ed goes to Knoxville.
You made the comparison. They are different types of institutions. Being a flagship university with 30,000 students and a huge number of programs doesn't equal better or superior. Of course OU and OSU are more comprable to UTK because they're the same types of university.
I am rolling my eyes and laughing. TU may have more more endowment per undergraduate student and has some pretty impressive archival holdings, but it is as a small regional private school with nothing like the graduate offerings, national grants and research produced at UT, Knoxville, and actually is in fairly precipitous decline due to the inept meddling of the Kaiser foundation. It is a lesser version of Dickinson or Berea or De Pauw, but with a law school. ORU is Baylor with a lobotomy, half a step above Liberty, and along with those schools the worst educational bang for your buck in the country: Harvard prices and elevated community college quality. I much prefer Tulsa over Knoxville, but for higher ed, you have to be on crack to think that any of the Tulsa universities can compare to the big one in Knoxville. OU and UT are more comparable, even OSU. There is a chance that AAU membership -the bottom line for tier one status - is in UT's reach. I cannot see such a path for TU or ORU. We are not even talking apples and oranges, more like watermelons and grapes. Tulsa is a significantly superior city to Knoxville by nearly every metric, but higher ed goes to Knoxville.
But Tulsa loves OSU so much that OSU provides daily M-F bus service to and from Tulsa-OSU campus up to 9 times a day. The trip is a little over an hour. OSU-Stillwater has around 24,000 students.
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