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The U.S. News & World Report has issued its annual ranking of universities in the country, and Rio Grande Valley campuses have earned respectable ratings. The data should give residents and prospective students confidence that the education they receive here compares well with institutions in other parts of the country.
For years Rio Grande Valley residents blamed the region’s persistent lack of progress on a poor education system. Public schools were considered inferior and dropout rates were as high as 70% in some independent evaluations, although districts insisted they were much lower. Higher education was inadequate, both in the programs offered and in the quality of those that were. Pan American University in Edinburg, with the satellite campus in Brownsville that opened in 1973, was known by the derisive “taco tech” name.
It was common for Valley officials and residents to say the region’s lack of economic progress was largely the result of a “brain drain” of smart residents who were compelled to leave the area to get an adequate education, and business investors’ perception that the exodus left the area without educated, knowledgeable workers they could employ.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in 1987 filed a class-action lawsuit against the state of Texas alleging that the lack of state funding to education along the border constituted racial discrimination. Although no favorable verdict was reached, Gov. Ann Richards and key legislators agreed that inadequate attention had been paid to the border.
As a result, state funding increased and the University of Texas System assumed control of Pan American in late 1988 and the Brownsville campus in 1991.
Since then progress has been steady and the region now boasts the only medical school in deep South Texas. Texas A&M University opened its Higher Education Center at McAllen in 2017.
The investment is paying off; degrees from the institutions are now respected, and the U.S. News & World Report rankings should reinforce that confidence.
UT Rio Grande Valley ranks 213th among all universities in the country, placing it close behind the University of North Texas, which ranks 208th in the country and No.10 in the state. Our university placed ahead of UT-Arlington, which ranks 222nd in the country. UTA has Tier 1 status, which recognizes it as a top academic and research institution and qualifies it for special levels of research funding.
It’s worth noting that TAMU-McAllen is not considered its own campus, but an arm of the flagship university based in College Station, which ranks No. 3 in the state, behind Rice and UT-Austin, and No. 51 nationally.
In this and other evaluations, UTRGV consistently ranks among the nation’s top schools with regard to value and among Hispanic- and minority-serving institutions.
We’re already seeing benefits of the Valley’s scholastic improvement in the expansion of investment, and job opportunities, in aerospace, software development and other high-tech — and higher paying — fields.
Signs of this progress are welcome, and should inspire more attention, and investment, in the Valley’s future.
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