[drbaskin]

I have great personal affinity for Texas but am having trouble coming up with a list of half a dozen top notch universities. I can come up with three (UT, TAMU, Rice) and a few more if you set the bar a bit lower, but none of the these (arguably Rice) is in the league of Stanford, Berkeley, and Caltech, and only the first three are in the same league as UCLA, UCD, UCSD, UCI and USC. Even UCSB and UCSC are good.

Perhaps what I'm trying to say is that as wonderful as Texas is, if you're interested in universities it is sadly lacking. (I mostly know about math departments, so if I'm really wrong about either state, I would like to know.)

[lhnn]

UT, A&M, TTU (Good for Business, Math and Enginnering), Rice, Baylor.... OK, five. Actually, U of H is picking up the ball in a lot of areas, too.