Houston still in good shape as we move up again. ARWU is a much better rank of a University’s excellence instead of the US News and World Report.
Criteria for ARWU ranking:
ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university. More than 1200 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published.
http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2016.html
https://twitter.com/MKE_Coog/status/765591974858620928
https://twitter.com/RolandB3/status/765604973983838208
Big 12 School Rankings:
30 UT
72-98 Iowa State
72-98 Kansas
120-137 Oklahoma State
120-137 Texas Tech
120-137 West Virginia
Other 4 are unranked
Other Notable U.S. Rankings
38 Rice
51-61 Texas A&M
72-98 New Mexico
99-119 Temple
99-119 UT-Dallas
120-137 San Diego State