200m bronze medalist online or extended campus student?

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Everyone doesn't care about Texas colleges. Many of the universities in California system have been world renowned for decades. My degree is from UMPI. Outside of New England who cares about the University of Maine system? Probably no one except for alumni. Anyone care about the university system in Florida? Outside of Florida and the South, probably not. Sorry but Texas A&M isn't UCLA. Very few schools compare to UCLA.

There wasn't a comparison of school rankings, although, UT-Austin is typically ranked pretty high on various world ranking lists, and Texas A&M has one of the best engineering schools in the country. Their overall rankings are lower than their reputations in individual fields because of the way U.S. News factors in SAT and ACT scores. That's why their world rankings put them higher than many universities with higher U.S. News national rankings, but that's beside the point. 

It's about people not understanding that multiple universities within a system are independent even though they have the same name with different cities attached to the end. Florida, which happens to have one of the best state university systems in the country, doesn't have this issue because the universities have different names.

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Texas A&M and especially UT-Austin are not the least bit comparable to UMPI.

I didn't compare any school to UMPI. I stated that university systems are known in their area. Where I live no one would care about a school from Texas. They wouldn't care about much outside of the Northeast except schools like UCLA which are really well known. Here we have the SUNY and CUNY systems. Outside of the Northeast most people don't give a flying fig about SUNY. Outside of NYC almost no one cares about the CUNY schools either. It's all regional for the most part. 

I live near RIT, Syracuse, and Cornell. I assure you no one here is giving 2 thoughts about an engineering school in Texas. We're thousands of miles away. People come here from around the world to attend these universities. Granted, Cornell is Ivy League, but it still blows away any school in Texas. There's about 3000 colleges in the country. No one has heard of all of them and no one cares about 95% of them.