For 50,000 students?

Derp, wrong school.

What a fascinating and laudable concept. Will be interesting to see if can end up changing what
one thinks "educated in Austin" means.

UATX?

I don't understand .

TheCurl84 said:

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UATX?

I don't understand .

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I didn't either.

TheCurl84 said:

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UATX?

I don't understand .

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https://www.uaustin.org/

torrid said:

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For 50,000 students?

Derp, wrong school.

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Understandable -- the name is a little misleading. I'd never even heard of it before.

Quote:

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This school is making waves,

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Coincidentally, you can fit the entire student body in the Wave Pool at Schlitterbahn. Is it even over 100 yet?

TheCurl84 said:

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UATX?

I don't understand .

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TheCurl84 said:

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UATX?

I don't understand .

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It's an unaccredited university in Austin that started in 2021. It has about 100 students total.

It's accredited by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and is a candidate for accreditation for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which you have to have to be able to apply for federal student loans.

I did the quick math in my head and figured it'd take $10B to cover that for UT-Austin.

Keep in mind, there's a t.u. Austin, the one we all love to hate; the Univ. of Austin (the subject of the OP); Austin College in Sherman, Tx., one of the oldest (maybe THE oldest, I can't recall) colleges in Texas and West of the Miss., and Austin Community College, the JuCo circuit in and around Austin (and perhaps surrounding counties).

Then there's the University of Dallas...

Oh, never mind.

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TheCurl84 said:

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UATX?

I don't understand .

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It's an unaccredited university in Austin that started in 2021. It has about 100 students total.

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I believe they are now fully accredited but I could be incorrect about this.

HTownAg98 said:

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It's accredited by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and is a candidate for accreditation for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which you have to have to be able to apply for federal student loans.

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You are correct, I saw that as well. I was referring to a national accreditation of some kind. I assume that's what most people think of but I could be wrong.

I don't know that anyone has actually graduated from this place yet so I guess they have some time.

Mathguy64 said:

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Rice was tuition free for a long time.

Sooner or later everyone runs out of money for things that are free.

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TANSTAAFL.

91AggieLawyer said:

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Then there's the University of Dallas...

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And UT - Dallas. Two different schools often confused.

drewser95 said:

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torrid said:

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For 50,000 students?

Derp, wrong school.

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Understandable -- the name is a little misleading. I'd never even heard of it before.

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I read it about 3 times before I realized it was University of Austin Texas and not University of Texas Austin...

I know they were going through the process but I hadn't see anything making it official yet.


Just checked the website for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. They list them as a candidate but not accredited yet.

https://www.msche.org/institution/?sf_paged=26

University of Austin - Texas.

nai06 said:

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HTownAg98 said:

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It's accredited by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and is a candidate for accreditation for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which you have to have to be able to apply for federal student loans.

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You are correct, I saw that as well. I was referring to a national accreditation of some kind. I assume that's what most people think of but I could be wrong.

I don't know that anyone has actually graduated from this place yet so I guess they have some time.

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Well if it's not a "national accreditation of some sort", what is it?

Joe's Accreditation Co.?

Half priced tater tots on Tuesdays?

YouBet said:

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I believe this is an attempt to create another Hillsdale like university, if I'm not mistaken. We should be all for that.

Whether or not it succeeds is another matter.

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It's small for now but I think they're trying to be more traditional and make sure a diversity of ideas are shared instead of just a single biased view.

hahahha

I never heard of this place.

Anyone send their kids to UT-Houston?

Students and their families need some Skin in the Game.

To have none in business or life promotes Laziness.

Here's the complete post...
UATX will never charge tuition. And we will never take government money.

Here's why.

Graduates spend decades shouldering debt for hollow credentials. This debt influences every decision they make: What job to take. Where to live. When to marry. When to have children. Some will never start that company. Never take that risk. Never build what they were meant to build.

Meanwhile, universities take billions of subsidies from Washington while hoarding billions in endowments. And every year, they raise tuition.

Universities get richer. Students get poorer. America gets weaker.

Every breakthrough every invention, every industry, every new frontier began with a handful of extraordinary individuals free to take extraordinary risks. Washington led men into battle at 22. Carnegie was building his steel empire by 30. Meriwether Lewis charted the American West in his twenties. Sam Colt patented the revolver at 22. Palmer Luckey sold Oculus at 21. Patrick Collison founded Stripe at 22. Michael Dell began his computer business at 19. Fred Smith launched FedEx at 29. None of them spent his twenties paying off student loans.

Thanks to a $100 million gift from Jeff Yass the largest donation since UATX was founded in 2021 we're breaking the chains. His gift marks the launch of a $300 million campaign to build a university that sets students free.

Our bet: Create graduates so exceptional they'll pay it forward when they succeed, financing the tuition of the next generation. When our students build important companies, defend our nation, advance scientific frontiers, build families, and create works that elicit awe, they'll remember who made their excellence possible. And they'll give back.

Other Americans will take notice. Those who believe in unleashing American talent will invest in creating more of it.

Every other college gets paid whether students succeed or fail. At UATX, if our graduates don't become essential to American excellence and if their work doesn't inspire others to fund this mission we're done.

Every dollar raised, every professor hired, every course taught must produce extraordinary graduates or we fail. We've designed our own constraints: no room for bloated bureaucracies, no frivolous departments, no administrative empire-building. Our survival depends on one thing only: graduating leaders free to pursue American greatness.

The University of Austin rejects the credentialing cartel. We admit purely on test scores, rank every student, and fail those who can't cut it. The nation's brightest are coming to Austin transferring from Carnegie Mellon, turning down UChicago, leaving Columbia to wrestle with great books, master AI and data science, and start real companies on campus. They're choosing a university dedicated to excellence instead of collecting hollow credentials elsewhere.

Jeff Yass has shown us what betting on America's future looks like. Now we invite you to join him.

liberal arts school.

so basically an indoctrination dept

A fool and his money