Houston is a lot like LA (Dallas, San Antonio: how much, public school, colleges)

[cBach]

Ok, from US News and World Report rankings:

Stanford #5, Cal Tech #7 (LA area)
Rice #17 (SMU #56, Baylor #79, TCU #99)


UCLA #25 (by the way UC Berkeley #22, USC #23, UCSD #35, UC Davis & Santa Barbara tied #39, UC Irvine #41)
UT Austin #45 (ouch, our flagship university is beaten by the Tier 2 California schools)
Texas A&M #63 (ouch Aggies!), UTD #143, Texas Tech #159
UH not published - I assume because it was ranked so poorly it didn't get on the list. However, it's #100 on public affairs so let's use that as a fair basis.

Wow, the facts hurt huh Houston supporters?

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[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by cBach

Ok, from US News and World Report rankings:

Stanford #5, Cal Tech #7 (LA area)
Rice #17 (SMU #56, Baylor #79, TCU #99)


UCLA #25 (by the way UC Berkeley #22, USC #23, UCSD #35, UC Davis & Santa Barbara tied #39, UC Irvine #41)
UT Austin #45 (ouch, our flagship university is beaten by the Tier 2 California schools)
Texas A&M #63 (ouch Aggies!), UTD #143, Texas Tech #159
UH not published - I assume because it was ranked so poorly it didn't get on the list. However, it's #100 on public affairs so let's use that as a fair basis.

Wow, the facts hurt huh Houston supporters?

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tell me, how does it feel becoming a troll?

[robertobaggio]

Originally Posted by cBach

Ok, from US News and World Report rankings:

Stanford #5, Cal Tech #7 (LA area)
Rice #17 (SMU #56, Baylor #79, TCU #99)


UCLA #25 (by the way UC Berkeley #22, USC #23, UCSD #35, UC Davis & Santa Barbara tied #39, UC Irvine #41)
UT Austin #45 (ouch, our flagship university is beaten by the Tier 2 California schools)
Texas A&M #63 (ouch Aggies!), UTD #143, Texas Tech #159
UH not published - I assume because it was ranked so poorly it didn't get on the list. However, it's #100 on public affairs so let's use that as a fair basis.

Wow, the facts hurt huh Houston supporters?

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First of all, the rankings are obviously coast biased. Second, UT has 50,000 students. The biggest UC campus no more than 25,000. If UT was to halve its student population, its admission standards would beat even Berkeley and its graduation rates would go way up. That's clearly proved by how far UT is from Rice, when in reality if you look major by major, UT tends to have higher rankings than Rice and at least on-par reputation.

[BigBobby]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

tell me, how does it feel becoming a troll?

someone is a troll because they bring the facts? WOW, you have to be the biggest houston homer on these boards

the fact is much like i stated before, the UC's second tier school's are better then the best public schools in Texas. don't get butt hurt, these are the facts

the only school worth mentioning in TX is Rice but they are private

[robertobaggio]

Originally Posted by BigBobby

someone is a troll because they bring the facts? WOW, you have to be the biggest houston homer on these boards

the fact is much like i stated before, the UC's second tier school's are better then the best public schools in Texas. don't get butt hurt, these are the facts

the only school worth mentioning in TX is Rice but they are private

You got to be insane. Nobody even knows UCI and UCSB outside of CA.

[BigBobby]

Originally Posted by robertobaggio

First of all, the rankings are obviously coast biased. Second, UT has 50,000 students. The biggest UC campus no more than 25,000. If UT was to halve its student population, its admission standards would beat even Berkeley and its graduation rates would go way up. That's clearly proved by how far UT is from Rice, when in reality if you look major by major, UT tends to have higher rankings than Rice and at least on-par reputation.

coast biased? these are national rankings not rankings put out by the UC schools. now you are just embarrassing yourself, you are creating your own calculations on how UT is better, nobody goes by your calculations of how UT is so great

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by jasltx

I hate to feed the trolls, Matt, but despite the growing momentum it has built up over the past decade, UH is not viewed as an elite school. Not even close. UCLA is one of the premier public universities in the USA, while UH isn't even among the top three in the state. California has invested a lot in its university system through the years and the result is a system of universities that blow most other states away. The size and diversity of an institution is not what employers and grad schools are looking at when evaluating graduates.

That said, UH does have some excellent programs in place and is positioned well to expand its profile if the idiot legislature ever decides to properly fund Texas' universities to keep up with its growing population. UT-Austin, A&M, and UT-Dallas (plus private Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine) all hold their own vs. the UC schools, but a state this large really ought to have several more in that category. UH is never going to be UCLA (or UT or Michigan or UNC) but, if it is able to continue on its current course, it stands a very good chance of closing that gap significantly.

No where did I say UH was better than UCLA academically. I would be fooling myself & everyone else.

What I did say however is that the diversity of both schools & undergraduate student population is very close which is a fact.

Pound per pound UH can holds its own against UCLA.

The University of Houston is one of the most racially/ethnically diverse public universities in the nation. Its also 2nd or 3rd largest in the State of Texas.

[robertobaggio]

Originally Posted by BigBobby

coast biased? these are national rankings not rankings put out by the UC schools. now you are just embarrassing yourself, you are creating your own calculations on how UT is better, nobody goes by your calculations of how UT is so great

Oh give me a break. Everybody knows there is anti-south bias on the coasts. Those are exactly the people who make these rankings.

Regardless, pull specialty rankings and you will see UT in the top 10-20 of just about all. The only CA public school which fares better will be Berkeley. UCLA on par more or less.

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by cBach

Wow, the facts hurt huh Houston supporters?

You're not wrong, and I do agree with you on a lot of what you're saying. For the second largest state, Texas is terrible at education. The only three noteworthy schools in the state (on an overall basis) are Rice University, University of Texas at Austin, & Texas A&M University. There are good law schools and medical schools and all that but I'm talking about overall.

I go to UT-Austin and I do agree that for the second largest state we come in very poorly here, the reason I mention this is because when applying to schools most of mine were out of state besides my application to UT-Austin & Trinity University. But I can have some civilized decency and not be a douche about it in my posts though to get a point across.

However if I recall, Matt simply stated that University of Houston is one of the most diverse schools in the country in terms of ethnicities and races attending the school, which is actually true though. I don't see what all the emotions are about.

If you're saying the entire state needs to work on its education field and get better schools, I entirely agree. If you're saying that people are worthless because they go to a school that's not accredited the same way as Rice, UCLA, UT-Austin, USC, among others then I disagree entirely.

[SouthernBoy205]

Y'all back off topic again!