The 25 Most Desirable Large Schools
Where students are surrounded by 10,000 of their closest friends.
Courtesy of University of Texas at Austin
Everything's big in Texas, and the University of Texas at Austin is no exception. With around 50,000 students, 37,389 of whom are undergrads, and a massive campus in one of the hippest cities in the nation (home to SXSW, Austin is widely known for its progressive music and arts scene), the school is counted by Newsweek as the 12th most desirable large school in the country.
Founded in 1839, the school is one of the country's power-broker schools, producing 26 members of the House, three Fortune 100 CEOs and nine billionaires. The student body is just over half white, 18 percent Asian, 18 percent Hispanic and 5 percent black.
The state school accepts fewer than half of its applicants, and those who attend averaged a 30 on the ACT and 1350 on the SAT. For the 2009-2010 academic year, in-state students, about 93 percent of the student body, paid just under $9,000 to attend the public school, while out-of-state students paid $30,000. Seventy-one percent of students received financial aid.
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