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FWST: TCU, Texas Tech and Baylor’s future as Power 5 schools depends on ESPN, Fox and Big Ten
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<blockquote data-quote="This Ain't Chopped Liver" data-source="post: 3164274" data-attributes="member: 74137"><p>TCU—<strong>Texas College & University </strong>is primarily a liberal arts <em>college</em> with only about 1700 postgraduates of its total 12,000 students, so obtaining Tier 1 Research status in five years is probably not realistic. I assume postgraduate student and research professor numbers would have to increase significantly, and physical space and its equipment too. I wish TCU would move in that direction, having at least 3500 postgraduate students. That could, but may not have to come at the cost of undergraduate numbers and I recognize that I don't know the financial cost of such change. But, Wake Forest’s endowment is only 1.35 billion dollars and they have 8800 total students with 3450 of them being postgraduates (2020 numbers).</p><p></p><p>Baylor has about 5450 postgrad students and is maybe about a year away from Tier 1 Research status—it is their objective. Houston is already there. AAU status is another matter, more elite, drawing in big government grants.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Baylor reached their goal this past December.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www2.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2022/01/baylor-earns-prestigious-r1-status-heres-what-that-means-for-bu/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="This Ain't Chopped Liver, post: 3164274, member: 74137"] TCU—[B]Texas College & University [/B]is primarily a liberal arts [I]college[/I] with only about 1700 postgraduates of its total 12,000 students, so obtaining Tier 1 Research status in five years is probably not realistic. I assume postgraduate student and research professor numbers would have to increase significantly, and physical space and its equipment too. I wish TCU would move in that direction, having at least 3500 postgraduate students. That could, but may not have to come at the cost of undergraduate numbers and I recognize that I don't know the financial cost of such change. But, Wake Forest’s endowment is only 1.35 billion dollars and they have 8800 total students with 3450 of them being postgraduates (2020 numbers). Baylor has about 5450 postgrad students and is maybe about a year away from Tier 1 Research status—it is their objective. Houston is already there. AAU status is another matter, more elite, drawing in big government grants. EDIT: Baylor reached their goal this past December. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www2.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2022/01/baylor-earns-prestigious-r1-status-heres-what-that-means-for-bu/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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