OBJTEX said:

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Unemployed said:

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OBJTEX said:

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BartInLA said:

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I will readily admit that my theory is not based on any experience, but here is my thinking.
1. We have by far the largest public university in the state.
2. Raise the standards incredibly so that we are considered a very highly competitive school.
3. Focus on STEM subjects.
4. Higher Nobel prize winners
5. Greatly reduce those students who are planning to be K-12 teachers and so forth.
6. Recruit very heavily among the Asian population. I know that's not PC and I know that the tradition and high spirit of the university might go down because that's just the way it is but we need some higher SAT and GRE scores.
7. We are big enough. Let's focus on being elite in virtually every area.


I know this is an overly simplistic idea, but please let's don't become a diploma mill. We put out some outstanding students who, has a median salary, command the highest of any public university in the state, and that's no doubt because of our heavy emphasis on STEM.
I majored in physics and engineering.

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You surely didnt take hire level english classes.

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Neither did you.

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Guessing you did not get my joke

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Yeah you got me. I was questioning whether it was intentional or not. I chose wrong.

The difference in ideas/philosophies at the two different university systems in TX is shown below.

The Tier 1 universities in TX when Sharp started;

Texas A&M University College Station
Rice University
University of Texas Austin

The Tier 1 universities in TX today;

Texas A&M University College Station
Rice University
University of Texas Austin
University of Texas Arlington
University of Texas Dallas
University of Texas El Paso
University of Texas San Antonio
University of Houston
University of North Texas
Baylor University
Texas Tech University

so did sharp win the race against the likes of ASU and central Florida to be the largest diploma mill?