They would be just as good and prestigious if they were called something else. Maybe all those heavy hitters would be somewhere else but for the reflected prestige of the University of Texas brand, but who knows.baldeagle wrote:If you consider that UT Southwestern is one of the premier medical universities in the world and has had five Nobel Prize winners (Chemistry and Physiology and Medicine), and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is THE premier cancer research facility in the world and has many prestigious prize winners and UTD has three Nobel Prize winners and UT Medical School Houston has Nobel Prize winners, I hardly think the brand was diluted by adding other universities to the system.JALLEN wrote:Well, thank God for that. You see, I am a graduate of The University of Texas, before there was UT Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Schulenberg, Blanco, Hye, Gruene and every other little bedroom wannabe community.
The Regents really blotted their copy books when they started that nonsense. They diluted the brand, no pun intended.
I thought it was a bad idea at the time, strongly resented it, and a great many of my fellow contemporaries did as well.