WalletHub<\/a>\u00a0analyzed nearly 800 higher-education institutions across 30 key measures, sorted into seven categories. These metrics ranged from student-faculty ratios and graduation rates to broader impacts like student-loan default rates and the share of former students out-earning high school graduates. The study revealed trends among the country’s higher education institutions.<\/p>\n“In general, universities tend to rank higher than colleges due to their inclusion of graduate-level programs, greater on-campus opportunities and higher earnings for students post-graduation,” WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo said in a statement. “In fact, the top 10 places for higher education in the U.S. are all universities. There are still tons of high-ranking colleges, though, which offer their own advantages like smaller class sizes, more personalized learning and often safer campuses.”<\/p>\n
What strengths and weaknesses do Texas institutions have, and how do they compare to other U.S. colleges? Here’s what WalletHub found.<\/p>\n
The University of Texas – Austin appeared relatively high in\u00a0overall rankings at No. 58. It also had the second-highest ranking among Texas colleges.<\/p>\n
A few other colleges in the Lone Star State stood out in WalletHub’s ranking:<\/p>\n
Here’s how Texas higher education institutions ranked among others in the country:<\/p>\n
Not all Texas institutions ranked high in categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several Texas colleges and universities\u00a0have once again gained national recognition \u2014 with two familiar names leading the pack.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,863,10499,27,4100,4101,511],"class_list":["post-12315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-colleges-universities","tag-texas","tag-university-of-texas","tag-university-of-texas-at-austin","tag-wallethub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}