<p>I thought it would be nice to have a listing of rankings of UT in various areas. I don't think we get enough recognition for the excellence we have in so many different areas. Feel free to add to this list or make comments. </p>
<p>USNWR </p>
<p>Overall Undergrad Ranking 47<br>
Undergrad Business 6<br>
Accounting 1<br>
Finance 4<br>
Insurance/Risk Man. 5<br>
International Bus. 5<br>
Management 3<br>
MIS 3<br>
Marketing 3<br>
Undergrad Engineering 11<br>
Civil 4<br>
MBA 18<br>
Accounting 1<br>
Entrepreneurship 9<br>
Info. Systems 3<br>
Marketing 9<br>
Public Affairs 14<br>
Info. & Tech. Man. 9<br>
Public Policy Analysis 9<br>
Social Policy 9<br>
Education 10<br>
Administration 6<br>
Special Education 4<br>
Engineering 11<br>
Aerospace 8<br>
Chemical 8<br>
Civil 4<br>
Computer 9<br>
Environmental 4<br>
Mechanical 10<br>
Petroleum 1<br>
Health<br>
Audiology 9<br>
Clinical Psychology 16<br>
Nursing 19<br>
Pharmacy 4<br>
Social Work 6<br>
Speech/Lang. Pathology 9<br>
Law 16<br>
Tax Law 10<br>
Trial Advocacy 9<br>
Arts and Sciences<br>
Biological Science 23<br>
Ecology 8<br>
Chemistry 12<br>
Computer Science 9<br>
Art. Intel. 5<br>
Programming 8<br>
Systems 8<br>
Theory 10<br>
Earth Sciences 9<br>
Geology 5<br>
Geophysics 8<br>
Paleontology 9<br>
Mathematics 14<br>
Analysis 10<br>
Applied Math 9<br>
Topology 7<br>
Physics 16<br>
Cosmology 8<br>
Plasma 5<br>
Social Sciences and Humanities<br>
Economics 25<br>
English 19<br>
History 19<br>
Latin Am.Hist. 1<br>
Political Science 25<br>
Psychology 12<br>
Sociology 14<br>
Soc. Of Population 5<br>
Library and Information Science 7<br>
Archives and Preservation 1<br>
Law Librarianship 3<br>
Master of Fine Arts 15 </p>
<p>Rankings by Public Accounting Report 2008<br>
Undergrad 1<br>
Masters 3<br>
PhD 4 </p>
<p>US National Research Council Rankings<br>
When compared to other universites:<br>
Ranked by average rankings 7<br>
Ranked by average of non-zero rankings 16 </p>
<pre><code>Individual Areas
Art History 19
Classics 8
Comparative Lit. 21
English 21
French 23
German 13
Linguistics 11
Music 17
Philosophy 25
Spanish 12
Biochem/Mol. Bio 23
Cell Biology 41
Ecol/Evol/Behav 10
Genetics 28
Neuroscience 47
Pharmacology 27
Physiology 35
Areospace Eng, 8
Biomedical Eng. 19
Chemical Eng. 10
Civil Engineering 4
Electrical Eng. 14
Materials Science 19
Mechanical Eng. 15
Astronomy 10
Chemistry 13
Computer Science 7
Geoscience 14
Mathematics 23
Physics 11
Anthropology 12
Economics 31
Geography 14
History 21
Political Science 19
Psychology 16
Sociology 16
</code></pre>
<p>The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong Universitys Graduate School of Education<br>
UT-Austin number 39 in the world </p>
<p>Webometrics World Rankings of Universities<br>
UT-Austin number 11 </p>
<p>Undergraduate Libarary 5th largest in nation<br>
7,495,275 books<br>
Endowment $7.2 billion in 2008 9th in nation</p>
<p>Whew. I thought this thread was going to refer to the fact that, in accordance with Texas Law, your high school ranking is pretty much all that matters as far as admittance to UT Austin is concerned. Luckily, they deal with this by having each individual college within the system to be able to use their own criteria for selection. Everyone else just gets stuck in Liberal Arts or the newly generalized “College of Undergraduate Studies.”</p>
<p>No, we have enough threads dealing with the TTP law. I think UT is an incredible school and wanted to share some rankings of our departments verifying that. We have so many highly ranked programs. I think we should be regarded more highly than we are.</p>
<p>I would agree that our image in the “general public awareness” is not what it should be. But our rankings differ wildly from one source to the next. I’ve found UT ranks best on International rankings. In fact, the London Times or whatever their big newspaper is over there had us ranked so incredibly high, it made me want to move there once I graduate, since they’d apparently love me so much.</p>
<p>Actually, when I first decided to go to UT, U.S. News and World Report, which I just realized was your source had UT ranked much much much lower (I can’t stress how much) than any other service for ranking colleges.</p>
<p>Do you think CC should move the forum to CC top universities? They have some comparable colleges on there(UNC and Michigan) and UT is right up there as one of the best public unis in the US.</p>
<p>I used USNWR since it was easy to find. I also included some other rankings that I knew I could find. It isn’t a comprehensive list by any means. It is true that USNWR tends to rank UT lower than other sources. It is biased toward smaller private universities.</p>
<p>I agree that UT is up there with the top publics but I believe CC’s top universities are those which rank in the top 25 overall in USNWR. I read that somewhere so it could be wrong.</p>
<p>I think we should be moved at least into the top 25 in the nation in the USNWR rankings. Almost all of our programs rank within the top 25, and a ton of them rank in the top 10…
I already started a little petition to move us up to the “top colleges” here on CC, but it is to no avail… :(</p>
<p>We get hurt on the USNWR in several areas. Class sizes are large, we aren’t as selective as our peer institutions because of the Top ten law, we don’t have as high SAT scores, etc. This is what hurts us the most. If you use the “peer rating” part of USNWR’s rankings, where academics give their impressions of the school, UT’s ranking is much, much higher than the high 40s–if they ranked by that alone I believe we’d be low 30s.</p>
<p>I don’t think a single program at UT is ranked as low as the university as a whole–most are top 25 programs.</p>
<p>There’s no way that UT can be in the top 25 when the average SAT is so low and where 25% of students have SAT scores under 1100. On the flip side, 25% of students have SAT scores over 1370, which is approaching elite levels.</p>
<p>Also, unlike other many other Public Ivies UT has so many non-scholarly majors. Majors like marketing, nutrition, social work, communications sciences (aka, English lit. major for dummies), education, area studies (humanities for dummies) and so on do not exist or have tiny enrollments at other so-called peer-ranked universities. At UT, some liberal arts majors (e.g. sociology) are watered down. Collectively, these will always pull down UT because they attract students who don’t or cannot study a field that requires abstract thinking over counter-intuitive subjects. At Berkeley and UVA, most students study a traditional humanities field or science/engineering. </p>
<p>There are literally thousands of students at UT pursuing dopey-majored degrees mainly targeted at pre-MRS girls and jocks.</p>
<p>See rankings above. Sociology is ranked 14th or 16th nationally, depending on which you choose. When looking at the rankings, it outranks Yale. That doesn’t sound watered down to me. </p>
<p>UT is a very large school. As such, it offers majors in a large number of fields. The fact that a smaller public such as Virginia does not offer a major does not mean UT should be penalized or criticized for having it. Compare UT to any of its peers in the fields which you deem scholarly. UT does quite well there, does it not? Why should that be taken away from it because it is large enough to offer majors that other schools do not or cannot?</p>
<p>Here is a link provided on the public ivy thread in another section. It seems relevant and I wanted to share it here. It compares universities by compiling a average score of rankings in individual majors. UT does very nicely in this, certainly earning its place in any list of top publics. </p>
<p>Does anyone know of a ranking for the Arabic department? I’ve heard references to it being ranked number one in the nation but can’t find a ranking online. Can anyone help?</p>
<p>Another possible reason UT hasn’t made CC’s top college list is all but Cal Tech and Vanderbilt have more posts than UT. However, those numbers appear to include the schools’ branches whereas UT only has an Austin campus forum. So, why aren’t there forums for UT’s branches?</p>
<p>Sorry to meander off topic, but is there somewhere to pull up forums by state? Are there any others in Texas besides UT, A&M, Baylor, Rice, SMU, Southwestern, TCU, Texas Tech, and Trinity? Do colleges pay to have a forum or how are forums created?</p>
<p>there are tons more schools than that^ but obviously there aren’t enough people interested in those schools to merit a forum place.</p>
<p>The posts isn’t the reason, because UT has significantly more posts than some of the colleges up there on the top colleges. USC is another perfect example of unjust exclusion.</p>
<p>And in 2005 it was 14th I believe. One major change was that they quit putting UT Southwestern and UT Medical Branch in with UT Austin.</p>
<p>The “world rankings” are based on volume of research produced, and without a medical school UT doesn’t have as much research opportunities as the other schools listed do. </p>
<p>That’s the reason UT is falling, not because of any “academic recognition.” UT has always had the rep as a party school but so does virtually every large public university, and most academics couldn’t give a rat’s ass what the kids do outside of classes. In fact, UT generally scores VERY high in the USNWR “peer rating,” where academics rate the school based on their opinion.</p>