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[xyresic]

Big news that UNT maintains its Carnegie R1 status. They tightened up standards and the remaining Texas schools with this classification are UT, UTD, Rice, Tech, A&M, UH and UNT.

http://www.kcbd.com/2018/12/18/texas-tech-receives-second-carnegie-tier-one-classification/

Edited December 19, 2018 by xyresic

[KRAM1]

Great job UNT!

[Graddean]

This makes all of our degrees look even better!

[UTArlingtonMaverick]

Been awhile 

correction.  Don't know anything about Carnegie  tightening standards, but the information in the original post above is, shall I say, incomplete.  UTA remains R1 and UTEP was added to R1.

[Salsa_Verde]

It’s not incomplete they just didn’t care to mention UT-Almost. Now back to the stable Maverick. 

[xyresic]

I didn't mention that UTA had been dropped in my post, it is generally poor form to throw dirt on another school. Since you brought it up, UTA did in fact get dropped and they had to file a protest to get reinstated.  I'm sure you can imagine that they won't go on a PR tour touting that information.

Our condolences to your basketball program.

All kidding aside the more T1 schools in Texas the better, I think the state generally gets overlooked in higher ed.

 

Edited January 22, 2019 by xyresic

[UNTLifer]

3 hours ago, xyresic said:

I didn't mention that UTA had been dropped in my post, it is generally poor form to throw dirt on another school. Since you brought it up, UTA did in fact get dropped and they had to file a protest to get reinstated.  I'm sure you can imagine that they won't go on a PR tour touting that information.

Our condolences to your basketball program.

All kidding aside the more T1 schools in Texas the better, I think the state generally gets overlooked in higher ed.

 

Well said.

Not sure how I would want to advertise being on the same level as UTEP.

[UTArlingtonMaverick]

We all have our fun biases and hates, but the more R1 institutions the better for Texas, which is my primary loyalty.  I found the newly released R1 list by going to the new website.  In any case, you are either R1 or not.  

UTEP, btw, has a pretty neat campus.  It is easy to knock them for their remoteness and student access, but they are serving a very particular geography.  They do a lot of research, which is why they were added.  It surprised me when I saw the amount of their annual research expenditures.

UNT made it on the strength of number of PhDs produced annually,  not so much on annual research spending, but we will likely see that number rise in future years.     

 

[El Paso Eagle]

On 1/22/2019 at 9:17 PM, UTArlingtonMaverick said:

UTEP, btw, has a pretty neat campus.  It is easy to knock them for their remoteness and student access, but they are serving a very particular geography.  They do a lot of research, which is why they were added.  It surprised me when I saw the amount of their annual research expenditures.

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UTEP has worked very aggressively on their research partnerships. IMO, they have benefited well playing to their opportunities/strengths.

[Legend500]

Being from El Paso, I am quite happy.

Having gone to UNT, I'm ecstatic about telling anyone with an SMU degree that they should go to graduate school at a real university like UTD if they want to get into our PhD programs.