Archive for: rankings
Ranking the Rankings
By Rose Cahalan
Within higher education circles, the annual U.S. News & World Report college rankings are a little bit like junk food: Our appetite for them is insatiable,...
UT Shines in U.S. News’ Grad School Rankings
By Rose Cahalan
With an enrollment of more than 11,000 students, UT’s Graduate School is one of the biggest in the country. And if you put any stock in the latest U.S. News...
UT Ranked 30th in World by U.S. News
By Andrew Roush
Ranking universities is a complicated and sometimes controversial business. Over the years, colleges have come to be ranked on an ever-expanding variety of criteria...
Latest U.S. News Rankings Put UT at 53rd Nationally, 17th Among Publics
By Rose Cahalan
A college’s reputation is a tricky thing to quantify. Still, in the form of rankings, reputation is nevertheless a meaningful indicator for students and...
Princeton Review Ranks UT’s Student Health Services 10th in the Nation
By Rose Cahalan
UT’s University Health Services is the 10th-best university health care provider in the nation, at least in the eyes of the Princeton Review. The popular...
UT Scored Three Top Rankings This Week
By Rose Cahalan
Not that Longhorns are the bragging type, but pardon us while we pat ourselves on the back for a moment: The university seems to be on a bit of a hot streak...
World University Rankings Put UT at 29th
By Rose Cahalan
We’re No. 29! OK, so 29th may not initially sound like the most impressive number for a school that likes to pride itself on being No. 1, but being named...
UT Ranks 5th in the World for Patents
By Rose Cahalan
The lithium-ion battery. Ethernet. And a polymer technology that prevents abuse of the drug Oxycontin. Those are just three of the many significant creations patented...
Report: UT a Top School for Producing Millionaire Grads
By Andrew Roush
This week, we learned that UT alums are some of the most employable grads around. Now we know that they’re also some of the most successful—at least when...
Daily Beast Ranking Says UT is 9th-Happiest College
By Julia Bunch
Walking the Forty Acres on a beautiful fall day like today will have any Longhorn thinking that UT is one of the happiest places on earth. Thanks to The Daily Beast,...
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