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[PaulieD]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/these-2-texas-universities-are-ranked-among-the-best-in-the-world/ar-AA1WsswA?ocid=socialshare

[Hank South]

Very nice! 

[Migas & Fajitas]

1 hour ago, PaulieD said:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/these-2-texas-universities-are-ranked-among-the-best-in-the-world/ar-AA1WsswA?ocid=socialshare

Some of the rankings are kinda surprising. UH ranked higher than A&M for starters. Florida and Indiana ranked lower than I would have thought. Would be interesting to compare/contrast to US World News rankings...but I don't have that kinda time. 

[FootLaw]

What starts here changes the world. We take that seriously.

[Wabi Sabi]

Per this ranking, we're the #6 public university in the US! 

[PaulieD]

2 hours ago, Migas & Fajitas said:

Some of the rankings are kinda surprising. UH ranked higher than A&M for starters. Florida and Indiana ranked lower than I would have thought. Would be interesting to compare/contrast to US World News rankings...but I don't have that kinda time. 

Yep.

UH has some fairly developed medical schooling, with nearby resources - that's the only thing I can think of.

[Migas & Fajitas]

1 hour ago, PaulieD said:

Yep.

UH has some fairly developed medical schooling, with nearby resources - that's the only thing I can think of.

I think they have improved a lot of things. But I don't pay close enough attention to know what they are. I just stunned (sorta) they are ranked higher than the sheepers. 

[jbseamus83]

For reference - non-private, power 4 schools in the top 100:

#9 - Michigan

#20 - Wisconsin

#33 - Ohio State

#37 - Texas

#45 - USC (Southern Cal)

#47 - Virginia

#80 - Washington

#81 - Penn State

#85 - Michigan State

#87 - Utah

#91 - Arizona State

#95 - Maryland

 

 

[PaulieD]

5 hours ago, jbseamus83 said:

For reference - non-private, power 4 schools in the top 100:

#9 - Michigan

#20 - Wisconsin

#33 - Ohio State

#37 - Texas

#45 - USC (Southern Cal)

#47 - Virginia

#80 - Washington

#81 - Penn State

#85 - Michigan State

#87 - Utah

#91 - Arizona State

#95 - Maryland

 

 

Wow  - Wisconsin.

[MarkInAustin]

This ranking and the London Times world rankings have a different perspective than US News or Niche rankings.  Graduate schools are extremely important to the world rankings.  

That contrasts with the ranking of undergraduate schools upon which US News and Niche focus.

Texas has ranked as high as #29 in world rankings in one past year.  

An obvious difference in the rankings: Princeton is always US News #1, but never in the top world group.  Princeton has no professional schools - no medical school, no business school, no pharmacy school, no law school.  The great US public universities of which Texas is one are all well endowed in breadth and depth of graduate and professional schools.  They usually score among the top fifty both on US undergrad rankings and world rankings based on metrics like peer reviewed publications and patents produced.

The consensus that Texas is an elite academic university is widely shared by employers, peer universities, the press, and the public.  As one result, it is ever more difficult to be admitted as a freshman - and even automatic admission [requiring inclusion in the top 5% of one's HS graduating class] does not guarantee admission to Cockrell or McCombs, both now accepting fewer than 10% of applicants.  I have twin 17 year old granddaughters one of whom wants engineering and one of whom wants marketing, and both want to go to Texas.  They are both in the top 5% of their junior class and both worry that they will be admitted to Texas but not to Cockrell and McCombs, respectively.

You may remember a time when it was less competitive.  I certainly do.

[MarkInAustin]

A 2020 peer ranking of faculty strength across departments in 67 American universities, public and private, had Texas at 14, overall.

Eleven of the 67 schools have all academic departments ranked 30th or better in the nation. The private elites in this group are Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell; the public universities in the group are UC Berkeley, Michigan, Wisconsin, UCLA, and UT Austin.

IIRC, 15 departments were ranked for the metric.

Some of the privates would argue that their undergrads are exposed to their vaunted faculty, and that in the publics one has to be in an Honors program to avoid instruction by junior faculty and T.A.s.  Two of my daughters are alums and were not in Plan II and they did see "vaunted" faculty members as early as their second years.  But more important, faculty rankings are based on publications, not teaching ability, so this "debate" really gets into the weeds pretty quickly.