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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
I think it's no secret that Texans are very proud of our state, so there are a lot of people who would like to stay in state. The problem arises when they're only given 2 "good" options (UT + A+M). Even though there are several top schools in the state who would love to attract these students, many top-performing students end up leaving the state in order to get into "real" schools.
I'm not saying that every university in the state needs to be a high-level research institution. For a state with 25 million-ish residents and 3 of the largest cities/metros in the country, though, we need more than two. Using DFW as an example (since I went to school here and currently live in the area), we have almost 7 million residents and 5 major universities in the area. There's a huge concentration of companies, several of them F500. I think the region would get a boost, though, if one of the universities in the area was more recognized. That would bring top-performing students who will (likely) eventually become top-performing employees at our companies.
I wonder if the OU students from UT/A+M families were ever invited back home  |
LOL, one of the families (an Austin family) has UT and OU rocking chairs on the patio. A house divided indeed.
How does UH fit in there? I know of a lot of UH-educated architects here in NYC, so it's got to have a pretty decent A-school.