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Originally Posted by Kitemom
Oh to throw more into the flames. There is UT Health Science Center in San Antonio and Houston and UTMB. Which stands for UT Medical Branch in Galveston and is the med school. No one would ever confuse UTMB with Southwestern which is the name for UT Medical school in Dallas.
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There's been so much talk lately about them starting a UT medical school that would be in Austin and a direct college within UT Austin. I think there's too much opposition for that to happen though. I personally don't know how much there is a need for it in the first place.
Speaking of public schools in Texas, did anyone see the recent thing where the legislature wants to consider starting a "third flagship public school"? I guess the idea is partially to take some of the strain off UT & A&M because of the 10% rule (well especially A&M). I don't get this idea. I thought that they were grooming Tech to take the "third flagship" role anyway and that it was already edging that way in the first place or even already there. And I also don't see why they would spend millions and millions of dollars into an entirely new school when they could use the money to build up places like Tech or even Texas State, where the basic infrastructure already exists. It's weird to me and I don't quite understand where the lobby for this is coming from.
It took me a long time to figure out in the first place that all the schools are part of different systems... In North Carolina every state school is technically part of the "UNC system" even if they don't have "UNC" in their name.
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