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Posted on 9/26/25 at 6:11 am to Mizz-SEC
Nice.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 7:50 am to ColoradoElkHerd
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Among academics USNWR is considered to be the equivalent of the National Enquirer. It is a POS rag.
This is an idiotic statement.
When other rankings come out, no one reacts.
When UCLA was ranked in US News as the top public university, they made banners all over campus about it. UF did the same one year when they were in the top 5 public universities. When US News changed their formula and Vandy dropped a few spots, their Chancellor publiched an open letter about it. Columbia was busted (by one of their own professors) for lying about certain datapoints to intentionally and specifically game the US News rankings.
Reasonable people can disgree about methodlogies and the value of rankings at all, but the US News rankings are the only ones that academics care about and react to at all.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 7:55 am to Open Dore Policy
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#208 - Mississippi State
Meanwhile Botox Boy continues stealing 5 million dollars from athletics.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 8:08 am to aggressor
UGA is already full of the top professors in all fields, most of my professors there were from Ivy's, Cambridge, University of Chicago, Stanford, etc ... They all loved Athens. Don't kid yourself, UGA will quickly rise in Medical(our state politicians tried to sabotage that because they know Augusta is screwed) and the Engineering program is in a quick accent already. Professor like traditional college towns, Athens and it suburbs are highly desirable.
Unlike the Soviet Village of TAMU...who just have oil money and given their resources should be better than they are......
Unlike the Soviet Village of TAMU...who just have oil money and given their resources should be better than they are......
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:18 am to lewis and herschel
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Unlike the Soviet Village of TAMU...who just have oil money and given their resources should be better than they are......
A&M is an elite engineering institution, they have a great business school and are towards the top in several other disciplines.
All of the major universites in Texas have made some questionable decisions in recent history, but A&M decdiding to really jack up its total enrollment numbers about a decade ago is arguably the worst.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:24 am to cardboardboxer
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When I was in school there was a push for A&M to make the top 20 by 2020, we totally fricked that off once we lost the leadership of Gates
Gates really was great for A&M.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:29 am to ColoradoElkHerd
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As a former GT student, they have gone woke AF.
Are you Haynes King?
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:30 am to cardboardboxer
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When I was in school there was a push for A&M to make the top 20 by 2020, we totally fricked that off once we lost the leadership of Gates
Rick Perry
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:31 am to MtVernon
Why are we squabbling about rankings when likely 60+% of you did not even attend the institution you're a fan of?
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:31 am to Mizz-SEC
I thought Arkansas would be higher due to Walton money.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:33 am to Mizz-SEC
3 way tie? 
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:37 am to SneezyBeltranIsHere
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All of the major universites in Texas have made some questionable decisions in recent history, but A&M decdiding to really jack up its total enrollment numbers about a decade ago is arguably the worst.
It was unfortunately the product of Rick Perry and John Sharp getting to just riff it without opposition. A much better approach for the state would have been to invest more heavily in regional system schools ala the Cali approach but they saw all that undeveloped land on the College Station campus and thought they could just keep stacking bodies via the Top 10% rule.
I really wish the Top 10/7/5 whatever rule would vanish for all of time.
This post was edited on 9/26/25 at 9:38 am
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:40 am to Uga Alum
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Funny to me how UGA isn’t in the AAU and Missouri and South Florida are. But whatever.
AAU doesn't have really much at all to do with undergraduate rankings. From their own website:
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The Association of American Universities (the “Association”) is an association of leading comprehensive research universities distinguished by the breadth and quality of their programs of (a) academic research and scholarship and (b) graduate education.
That said, Georgia does spend a lot of money on research, and continues to grow. It's competitive with AAU schools on that front, so I wouldn't be surprised to see them join the ranks at some point. Biggest factor UGA has working against it is that the AAU loves medical/science research , where Georgia historically lacks (y'all currently don't even have a medical school).
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:43 am to gaius julius bevo
quote:With only two top tier universities, and the state growing like crazy, there is a case for these two schools being larger than they were 25 years ago. Now, there is a limit as to what you can do in this regard without it getting out of hand, and doing this drives up your acceptance rate, which in the strange world of academic ratings, drives down how highly you are rated. I’m glad that we are capping growth for the time being, but, somehow, the state probably needs to elevate a couple of other schools to take some of the pressure off.
Not sure of the deciding reasons, but I think A&M just decided they would rather expand and produce more graduates. It's a good long term vision. I have a son at A&M, so obviously I wish the school well.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:43 am to LSUTigresFan
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UT Austin and Georgia Tech still top 10 computer science
I don't understand what one studies in Computer Science anymore.
Everything (jobs) is so far removed (high-level) from the blood and guts of hardware and coding these days.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:43 am to BigBro
These numbers are bogus.
That figure for Georgia is including Georgia Tech's ENORMOUS spend, along with the other Georgia system schools. UGA's is still an impressive $600 million: from the university's own website.
That figure for Texas must include every Texas system school, or is just AI bullshite. Texas-Austin spends an impressive $1.14 billion in 2024: From your own university's website.
Edit: BigBro demonstrating why you can't just plug shite into AI and copy/paste the results.
That figure for Georgia is including Georgia Tech's ENORMOUS spend, along with the other Georgia system schools. UGA's is still an impressive $600 million: from the university's own website.
That figure for Texas must include every Texas system school, or is just AI bullshite. Texas-Austin spends an impressive $1.14 billion in 2024: From your own university's website.
Edit: BigBro demonstrating why you can't just plug shite into AI and copy/paste the results.
This post was edited on 9/26/25 at 9:45 am
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:57 am to southpawcock
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Why are we squabbling about rankings when likely 60+% of you did not even attend the institution you're a fan of?
Maybe the ones that are squabbling are in the 40%?
Just a thought.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 9:58 am to Bronco Calrissian
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I thought Arkansas would be higher due to Walton money.
I thought Arkansas would have been climbing over the last few decades. Look at all the fricking jobs and industries in NW Arkansas now.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:08 am to madmaxvol
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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
Just heard Bama's new president speak a couple nights ago. UA has one of the 5 oldest engineering programs in the nation. It sounded like it was becoming a bigger focus so that ranking should only rise. The facilities themselves are already better than at Auburn after touring both. Alabama always gets dinged in rankings because UAB, with the medical school, is considered a separate entity within the same system. The law school has historically been around the Top 25 in the nation.
Any rankings are subjective...basically just marketing tools for the most part.
This post was edited on 9/26/25 at 10:11 am
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