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Rice University in Houston and Southern Methodist in Dallas. Both are Ivy League quality schools. I guess you could say they are the Northwestern of the South.
University of Texas in Austin - an Ivy League quality state supported university. Probably the best state supported university in the nation.
rice university in houston and southern methodist in dallas. Both are ivy league quality schools. I guess you could say they are the northwestern of the south.
University of texas in austin - an ivy league quality state supported university. Probably the best state supported university in the nation.
if you look at the US News rankings and other rankings, there is an obvious bias for old colleges. that is why Ivy League is so highly ranked, UNC (claims to be oldest college founded as a public), Willima and Mary (2nd oldest in country), etc. these rankings also are biased to smaller colleges and private college because they put a big emphasis on selectivity, and obviously smaller private colleges can be more selective than large state universities that have to take x number of in state students. US News has a category for 'academic reputation' that is ranked by faculty at other colleges. obviously the older a college is, the longer it has had to market itself, so faculty at other colleges tend to rank those colleges high because they have strong name recognition. back in the day, Ivy League schools and the early publics obviously had little competition, so they were the 'best' schools by default and this impression has been baked into modern perceptions despite more competition even if it is not the reality.
Rice University in Houston and Southern Methodist in Dallas. Both are Ivy League quality schools. I guess you could say they are the Northwestern of the South.
University of Texas in Austin - an Ivy League quality state supported university. Probably the best state supported university in the nation.
The line I've always heard about SMU here goes something like this -"SMU: where wealthy Texans have been sending their underachieving children for years". But, if you look at many rankings, it rates much higher than I would expect, so you might be raising a good point.
Rice University in Houston and Southern Methodist in Dallas. Both are Ivy League quality schools. I guess you could say they are the Northwestern of the South.
University of Texas in Austin - an Ivy League quality state supported university. Probably the best state supported university in the nation.
UT Austin is a great school, but either UC Berkeley or University of Michigan are likely the "best" state-supported flagship (if you want to call Berkeley that...) universities.
I'd lump UT Austin in the upper echelon with schools such as UW Madison, UNC, UIUC, University of Washington, etc.
For the best universities in the south, I'd say it's probably a toss-up among Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory, Duke, and GA Tech.
ok, did you read anything that I posted? UNC doesn't have engineering or architecture. how can you say it is better than G Tech and other universities with engineering and architecture.
you are treating the rankings like they cannot be questioned. i believe one of the criteria in the US News rankings is size of the university's endowment, which has no relation to the quality of the professors and programs at universities.
in my opinion, WM has very little name recognition on a national level. it is a small school with no major athletics program.
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