November 12, 2004
UT #15
By Byron LaMasters
Why bother with the U.S. News and World Report rankings. I'll take The Times of London:
The University of Texas is getting some attention from across the pond.
The Times of London has ranked the Austin campus 15th among 200 universities it considers best in the world.
Among U.S. public schools, only the University of California at Berkeley, which came in second, ranked higher. Harvard University topped the list, which was released earlier this month.
By comparison, U.S. News and World Report, widely regarded as the most authoritative assessment in the United States, listed UT as 46th among national universities in its annual ranking released earlier this year. It ranked UT 14th among U.S. public universities.
In the Times' rankings, American institutions occupied seven of the top 10 places, with Oxford and Cambridge universities ranked the highest among schools outside the United States.
UT was the only school in Texas to place in the top 50.
Poor Aggies.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at November 12, 2004 07:56 PM
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Oh thank goodness. I saw the title of the post and I thought Texas had been downgraded in the BCS poll.
Yeah, 15 is good, as long as it's not in football.
(But wait, polls don't come out on Friday...)
Former DEM. VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro doesn't think too much about UT. She said the other day; " There would be no educational system. You would have nothing. What would be left to you? I mean, where is all of this talent in this county? Its on both sides, the Northeast corridor." She was talking about the red state/blue state thing. I guess UT, ASU, OU, ND, UMICH, AUBURN, FSU, Miami, DEPAUL, KANSAS, GRAMBLING, DUKE, UG, VMI, all these and more don't count for much in her eyes. Your scholarships are worthless in her eyes. Northeastern Democrats really look down their noises at the rest of us. Why do we back these people for public office?
I think it's hyperbole.
At any rate, there are a good lot of northern schools that are consistently ranked higher than UT, and UT is the top dog in the pack.
I think it speaks for itself.
That said, I prefer not to get wrapped up in this "red state/blue state" thing. I can also illustrate numerous times in which the Republican leadership's gotten quoted treating the rest of us like morons (DeLay's "we're a permanent majority, and you need to get used to it." is the first of many that come to mind.)
She does have a point considering the schools in the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast consistently rank higher than most southern schools, as they should. california alone has about as many first tier schools than the entire south combined. don't get me wrong, i am proud that at UT i am in the 5th-ranked chemical engineering program in the nation, but overall there a quite a lot of schools better than UT and most of them happen to be on the West Coast, Northeast and Midwest. oh yeah, and petey, OU doesn't count for much in anyone's eyes.
