MONEY’s 2017-18 Best Colleges in the South Ranking - UH 29th

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http://time.com/money/best-colleges/rankings/best-colleges-in-the-south/

UH comes in 195th nationally (This does include Private schools)

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/07/11/rice-top-texas-school-on-latest-best-colleges-for.html

However, 11 Texas schools made the specialty list of the " 50 Best Colleges in the South." They are:

No. 2: Rice
No. 8: UT Austin
No. 9: Texas A&M
No. 20: Trinity
No. 26: UT Dallas
No. 28: UT El Paso
No. 29: University of Houston
No. 35: Texas Tech University
No. 39: St. Edward’s University
No. 47: Southern Methodist University
No. 50: University of Dallas

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What metric did they use to put UTEP ahead of UH?

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My guess is cost of attendance. They’re saying that UTEP students are more likely to receive grants which drops their avg tuition to $5,868 while UH’s avg tuition after grants is $15,184. Even though UH students are expected to make over $10K more starting out than UTEP students, I guess it wasn’t enough to offset the fact that the avg tuition was lower.

Strange ranking to be honest.

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Other FBS:

  1. Virgina
  2. Vandy
    T4. Georgia Tech
  3. Florida
  4. Virginia Tech
  5. NC St
  6. UNC
  7. Clemson
  8. Georgia
  9. Duke
  10. Wake Forest
  11. Arizona St
  12. Oklahoma
  13. LSU
  14. Florida St
  15. Okla St
  16. La Tech
  17. Miami
    T45. Arizona
    T45. Tulane
  18. Miss St

So it looks like the region includes:

Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
North Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia

FBS schools not making the Top 50

New Mexico
New Mexico St
Arkansas
Arkansas St
TCU
Baylor
North Texas
Texas State
UTSA
Louisiana - Lafayette
Louisana - Monroe
Ole Miss
Southern Miss
Alabama
Auburn
UAB
Troy
South Alabama
Louisville
Kentucky
UCF
USF
FAU
FIU
Georgia St
Georgia Southern
Tulsa
South Carolina
East Carolina
Charlotte
App St
Old Dominion
Middle Tenn St
Western Ky

So Houston ranked 18th out of 62 FBS schools over 14 states. Not bad.

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