It’s $5 million to be considered a research university.
To be R1, UH made it at about $100 million years ago. Now we are over $200 million.
I had assumed that 100M was the standard. But I guess Baylor proves that it isn’t.
Imagine if somehow we replace Rice as the AAU school in Houston.
That would be the definition of 2 ships passing in the night. A city public school becoming more recognized than the established Ivy league level private.
The only reason Rice isn’t a Stanford level in Academics & Athletics is Rice’s leadership.
Think about this - thet went from an established SWC member to estatic they are taking Houston’s vacated spot in the AAC.
Well that, plus the fact that Rice doesn’t have much in the way of professional schools.
No law school, no medical school, no education school, (Stanford is among the best in all three) and only a relatively new graduate business school that is not on Stanford’s level.
Stanford’s research output is also far higher.
But yeah, athletics does help Stanford’s profile.
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