<p>A list:
Louisiana State University
Tulane University
Southern Methodist University
Texas Christian University</p>
<p>Feel free to answer, even you are not from Louisiana or Texas. Tell me what you know (please don't do research) and what you believe people around you would believe about these schools. I am trying to have an idea of how famous are these schools.</p>
<p>Those schools are all pretty famous in the US because they have football teams in the top echelon league (FBS). That’s the way things work around here.</p>
<p>Famous? Do you mean reputable or well known?</p>
<p>Louisiana State is only famous for football.
Tulane is decent.
Never heard of the last 2.</p>
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<p>No, LSU is also famous, in my mind, for Andrei Codrescu.
I think you need to start by telling us what drives your interest in these schools.</p>
<p>lookingforward:
What drives my interest? Ah…well, they have outstanding? business and/or Computer Science program. So I am interested.</p>
<p>JoBenny:
Both reputable or well known.</p>
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Everyone, if you are comfortable, please tell me where are you from.</p>
<p>I’m from PA. As far as I’ve heard, tulane is a really good schol and after that comes louisiana state. I’ve heard of southern methodist but not the last one.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard anything about those schools asides from Louisiana.</p>
<p>My idea of these schools:</p>
<p>Tulane - good law school
SMU - good business school
TCU - slightly better overall than LSU
LSU - go for the football, not the academics</p>
<p>SMU has the best business school
TCU and LSU are only known for sports
Tulane is slightly better overall than SMU</p>
<p>West coast. Heard good things about Tulane (especially law), LSU for the sports (but it’s got a really bad academic reputation over here), and haven’t heard of the other two.</p>
<p>@pixels and fantasiekey, you’ve never heard of TCU? That wasn’t meant to sound confrontational, I am just surprised. It was only a couple years ago that TCU had two consecutive undefeated seasons, yet missed the national championship because of the flawed FBS selection system.</p>
<p>ptontiger16:
It’s okay. It does not matter if they know or not. Where are you from?</p>
<p>I’m familiar with all of them - went to school in the WAC, lived in Louisiana.<br>
LSU - not very competitive academically (but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a good education)
Tulane - good law
SMU - good engineering (infamous for the football death penalty)
TCU - good engineering</p>
<p>@ptontiger - I realize I have heard of TCU because of that exact reason. I’m just used to seeing it abbreviated and I had no idea what it stood for, so I didn’t recognize it lol</p>
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<p>If you aren’t into college football, you’ve probably heard of Tulane and Southern Methodist (but don’t know much about them). Louisiana State - well, every state has a state school, so I guess it’s not surprising that Louisiana has one too. Never heard of Texas Christian.</p>
<p>Tulane got a lot of press as a result of Hurricane Katrina a few years back.</p>
<p>I’m mid-atlantic region.</p>
<p>Power…</p>
<p>Are you an int’l? </p>
<p>LSU does have a good math dept. This was surprising to learn, but my son did a VIGRE program there one summer (funded by the NSF), and the profs that ran it were quite good. The eng’g program is good. It is the A&M school for the state, so it’s going to have decent science programs. Yes, it’s also known for football, but Bama kicked it’s hiney in the BCS. (rolll tide! lol )</p>
<p>Tulane is a very good school. It’s eng’g program was hurt by Katrina, so now they offer fewer disciplines. Strong in the sciences.</p>
<p>SMU and TCU are well known, but I don’t know much about them. SMU always had the rep of being a rich kid’s school. I’m pretty certain that the academics are going to be pretty good. Both are known for football…SMU got the death penalty and hasn’t ever really recovered from that. TCU has had some very good teams in recent years.</p>
<p>The old rep for SMU was something like for Duke. It was seen by many as a progressive school, though in Texas.<br>
Tulane UG is nowhere near as competitive as it used to be.<br>
Some on CC talk about great STEM merit awards at LSU, iirc. I don’t know.</p>
<p>The trick is not to ask if they are famous or well-known, but to take at look at the course offerings, the strengths of the profs in your focus (their ed, current research, professional activity, etc, and how available they actually will be to mentor you,) research jobs available on campus and how hard they push to get you outside experience.</p>
<p>In other words: you have to customize your look-see.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of Tulane and SMU. My impression is that Tulane has the better academic reputation. Although I listen to Andrei Codrescu, I’d never really taken in the name of LSU. My awareness of Tulane was probably mostly because of John Grisham novels, in which it is portrayed as a regionally outstanding school. </p>
<p>I don’t think that any of them have particularly strong academic recognition outside their region. Apparently sports fans know them, but I am not a sports fan.</p>
<p>mom2collegekids:
nah. Just English is not my first language.</p>
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Everyone, thanks for replying.
More comments would be appreciated.</p>