As far as economic development, I would definitely say that the Texas metros (esp. Dallas) have definitely stolen some of the thunder from Atlanta/Miami and taken the lead.
However, on the debate of universities....I'll post the US news rankings for each city. Please tell me if I miss any as I'm not terribly familiar with these areas.
DFW-
64. SMU
97. TCU
147. UT Dallas
281. Dallas Baptist
281. University of North Texas/Denton
Houston-
17. Rice
185. Univ. of Houston
281.Sam Houston State
Miami-
57. Univ. of Miami
218. Florida International
248. Nova Southeastern
272.Keiser Univ.
Atlanta-
21. Emory
29. Georgia Tech (The engineering program is top notch and in the same league as UC Berkley and CMU)
50. University of Gerogia
211. Georgia State
Contentious Colleges
70. TX A&M (Houston)
79. Baylor (DFW)
153. Mercer (Atlanta)
Out of all of these, I would definitely say that Atlanta is by far the clear winner of the pack with three universities in the top 50.
Second could go to either Dallas our Houston depending on what you value. It depends if you want an elite school (Rice) and some good schools in Houston, or good schools across the board but no elite university in Dallas.
Miami is by far the last place finisher.
Last edited by Ric 0_0; Dec 12, 2019 at 1:44 AM.
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