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Seven Texas universities push for "Tier One" status
03:57 PM CDT on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
These days it seems like every public university in the state wants to be the next University of Texas at Austin or Texas A&M University.
But how do state leaders and educators decide which campus should be the newest major research university? And how does the state pay for it?
State lawmakers are grappling with those questions today. Two Senate subcommittees – higher education and higher education finance – are holding a day-long hearing in Austin.
Today they listened to the heads of seven universities that aspire to so-called “Tier One” status: the University of North Texas, Texas Tech University, UT Arlington, UT Dallas, UT El Paso, UT San Antonio and the University of Houston.
No one agrees on the exact definition of “Tier One.” Some equate it to high ratings from U.S. News & World Report. Others see it as membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. But in general, “Tier One” campuses receive hundreds of millions of research dollars and are seen as the best of the academic best.
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