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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
All of Texas State sports except football are currently IA.
Football will be IA in the next few years - I don't recall exactly because I HATE WHAT COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS BECOME. But that's a different rant.
Texas State was selected as a Best Western College by U.S. News and World Report and a Best Buy by Princeton Review. I hate those ranking things, but if they are going to exist, I guess I should spread the word.
And let me state here that I believe the undergraduate experience is just as, if not more, important as the graduate programs. Too often the focus is on the graduates, and the undergrads get short-shrift. You reach more students through the undergraduate program, and one thing I LOVED about my education at Texas State was that I was taught by actual professors - only one graduate assistant (in Spanish). My classes were small, and I never felt like I was just a number. I really only had two large classes - physics and psychology.
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On the football thing--only mentioned it because it could be a reason for the greater visibility of Texas Tech.
As I emphasized, the Carnegie categories are not meant to rank colleges but categorize them. They have a multitude of rankings based on undergraduate measures as well. I personally am with you on the undergrad experience thing. I went to a liberal arts college!
HOWEVER, when they (the Texas legislature & lt. gov) say they want to create a third flagship institution what they have actually been talking about is a research-focused institution:
http://media.www.dailytexanonline.co...-3191142.shtml
I'm guessing the real unstated goal here is to create another institution that would make the Carnegie "very high" list.
My position has always been that they should choose another campus--and I think Tech, Texas State, and UTEP are all great candidates--and get it ranked on the list (if that's indeed the goal) rather than starting completely from scratch. I'm not critiquing Texas State at all. At. All.