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Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University, founded in 1911, has built a reputation as one of Texas's leading private universities, with a Dallas campus location that gives its Cox School of Business unusually direct access to the city's concentration of Fortune 500 corporate headquarters and finance industry employers. The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum sits on SMU's campus, a high-profile addition that brought national attention and academic programming tied to presidential history and public policy directly onto the university's grounds. SMU's business, law, and arts programs have each built strong regional and national reputations, and the university's relatively small size compared to the state's massive public flagships gives it a more personalized undergraduate experience while still maintaining access to a major metropolitan area's internship and career opportunities. The university's Mustangs athletic program has a storied, complicated history — including the NCAA's unprecedented 1987 "death penalty," which shut down the football program entirely for a season over recruiting violations — a scandal SMU has spent decades rebuilding its athletic reputation from, most recently through its move into the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin, founded in 1883, is the flagship campus of the UT System and one of the largest research universities in the country, enrolling more than 50,000 students across a sprawling downtown Austin campus that puts it at the geographic and cultural center of one of America's fastest-growing cities. UT Austin's endowment is funded in significant part by the Permanent University Fund, a constitutionally established trust built on oil and gas royalties from state-owned land — a financing structure unique among American public universities that has given UT Austin resources rivaling many private institutions. The McCombs School of Business and Cockrell School of Engineering both rank among the top public-university programs in their fields nationally, and UT Austin's computer science department has become one of the country's leading producers of software engineering talent for both Austin's own growing tech sector and Silicon Valley. UT Austin's Longhorns athletic program, one of the most valuable in college sports, and its massive statewide alumni network give the university an outsized cultural and economic footprint across Texas that extends well beyond its academic reputation alone.
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