Ut austin the nest powerhouse?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I've been incredibily impressed with UT austin.I think in a few years it will overtake berkeley.
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/site/newsweek/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/site/newsweek/&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/pressreleases/ceos_04.05.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/pressreleases/ceos_04.05.asp&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200411/nr_ranking041108.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200411/nr_ranking041108.html&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/mw_rankings.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/mw_rankings.htm&lt;/a>
and it would probabily rank higher if it had a medical school.
What do you guys think?</p>

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<p>UT Austin is an excellent school and has been for some time. UCB, Michigan, Wisconsin, UCLA, and Washington could still give UT a run for its money, though. TAMU has really improved a lot as well.</p>

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<p>Austin is def. Top 10 public schools. Engineering & law school are among its top programs. Medical School? Baylor is the name of the game. A&M is a good alternate school to consider.</p>

<p>P.S. Damn, Kinky Friedman should’ve won :(</p>

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<p>It's amazing how a school can have 50,000 students and still be great. Since they've actually chosen to lower enrollment to 48,000 from their high of 52,000 in a time that all across the country there are more and more good applicants makes it easy for UTA to become more selective. Which they obviously are.</p>

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<p>UTA, just like UC-Berkeley, is loosely affiliated to a top 15 medical school (UCSF in the case of Cal and UTSWMC-Dallas in the case of UTA), so they don't really need a medical school of their own. UTA is a great university indeed, with a huge endowment ($5 billion), excellent faculty, talented students, top notch departments across the board and a location to die for. I'd say it is definitely one of the top 7 or 8 state universities.</p>

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<p>I'm beating my head against the wall here. but the acronym for the University of Texas (in Austin) is simply UT. UTA refers to the University of Texas-Arlington.</p>

<p>And the University of Texas system has 4 medical schools - Galveston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston.</p>

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<p>Baylor doesn't have a medical school either... Baylor College of Medicine is a separate (public?) institution in Houston. fwiw, UT Southwestern in Dallas has more Nobel Laureates on faculty than any other US medical school.</p>