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Originally Posted by JManc
I don't think we'll see any new stand alone universities any time soon. Perhaps a new one formed out of an existing public system but not private. They were conceived when the US was more or less coming into its own as an industrial power. A brand new university would lack prestige, history and pedigree no matter who was behind it and how much was thrown at it. Why create new Harvard when you can make a massive endowment to Harvard and have a building or school named after you?
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Yeah, Bill Gates is happy giving his money to existing universities, but it sucks for places that don't really have established major research universities. Like for Dallas, SMU is decent, and UT-Dallas and UT-Arlington are R1 universities which may become more prestigious in the future, but Dallas is probably at somewhat of disadvantage for not having any elite universities in the metro (smart kids leave and often don't come back).