Does a university's tier really matter?

<p>Getting a full-time faculty job in most fields is amazingly competitive these days, and often depends on who you know, what your specific sub-field is, and how you fit into their diversity requirements. Given all of that, it’s kind of unlikely that the profs at UT know something the UH profs don’t know, ESPECIALLY as it applies to teaching at the undergrad level (where even in the upper-level courses the profs aren’t going to be laying out the cutting-edge stuff).</p>