re: Where Every SEC school ranks in the 2026 U.S. News 2025 college rankings

With over 3000 four year public universities in the U.S., none of these schools have anything to be ashamed of.

Congrats on being 102 I guess.

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Lmao! SEC schools talking about academics, how cute.

Anything beyond Texas A&M is a joke unless there are specialize programs like LSU petrochemical engineering and coastal and wetland science programs!

We’re always better,
Big Ten Fans

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Looking at SEC Engineering School Rankings:

#7. Texas
#15. Texas A&M
#39. Vanderbilt
#43. Florida
#52. Tennessee
#59. Auburn
#81. South Carolina
#85. Mississippi State
#97. Alabama
#97. Kentucky
#101. Oklahoma
#106. Arkansas
#106. Missouri
#111. Georgia
#125. LSU
#173. Ole Miss

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UA doesn't even hide they are a diploma mill.

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Funny to me how UGA isn’t in the AAU and Missouri and South Florida are. But whatever.

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Based on the numbers for Missouri and USF, I'd say Georgia is getting really close to an invitation.

I do believe there is a difference in Research Tiers though, but I don't fully understand how any of that works.

Couple things, one the AAU has gone on membership drives in different decades. Two there are two AAU schools in Georgia that are scared to death of UGA becoming AAU as nobody cares about Emory and Tech is for internationals... The Sucking sound would be UGA taking all their professors....

Few points on the AAU and Research spend.

UGA is not in the AAU because the Medical School is not in Athens so even though UGA has a Med School all the research money doesn't count. They also aren't much of an engineering school though they have been trying to build that up, GT is the Engineering monster in Georgia and the schools work in tandem. UGA is an excellent school that has risen significantly in recent years but the B School and the Liberal Arts focus are what they are known for.

Big difference between the UT System and UT Austin. Most of the research money is with the hospitals, particularly MD Anderson which is an elite cancer hospital in Houston. The system has quite a few others though but only in recent years have they opened the Med School in Austin. It's becoming very competitive very fast though and is excellent. Prior to the Med School in Austin and the combined numbers UTA had a research spend well below $1 Billion, still very respectable but not the same.

UT has become crazy competitive now though. They had nearly 100k applications last year and dropped auto admit for in state to 5% (and that only guarantees you for Liberal Arts, separate process for Engineering and Business and Sciences). Getting in OOS is crazy competitive.

Texas and Florida as states have just exploded in population and have a strong high school talent pool to choose from and they are appealing to OOS students. UF has also seen a huge spike in applications and has risen accordingly. They have always been a rock solid AAU school and now are almost always listed as a Top 10 Public on every list.

A&M really doesn't do much to try and compete ratings wise, it just isn't a priority. The Engineering and B Schools though are top notch and massive. The size of the schools hurts the rankings even though the quality is outstanding, I know 3 kids that got into McCombs at Texas but didn't get into Mays at A&M last year. Admissions is weird though A&M has a monster research spend in Engineering and with the Vet School. Applications have risen there as well and should be around 80k but they have 72k students now though they have finally capped the size. A&M and Texas have the insane endowments so that allows them to just build and buy anything essentially.

I expect Tennessee will rise in the coming years. The state has grown and it's become a popular OOS destination. South Carolina, Bama, and Auburn as well but they haven't had the population expansion in state so most of the growth is OOS. OU, Arky, LSU, and the Mississippi schools all have individual good programs but they will never do well on these kinds of rankings because they just don't have the in state feeder schools and they aren't as popular as an OOS destination. Missouri is pretty stable as an old AAU member in a stable growth state that doesn't have a big OOS appeal.

Oh, and Vandy is Vandy and only gotten harder to get into and more popular.

#208 - Mississippi State

Honestly not super impressed with Mizzou engineering back in the day. I guess when you fail 90% of freshmen out, you get a crème if the crop, but on the other hand, you could just teach them.