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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At some point in the 80s or 90s, UT's endowment topped Harvard's. They were able to lure a few professors with big labs. That was about it.[/quote]

UT isn’t really a good comparison, because the endowment is shared across the entire UT and Texas A&M systems. The enormous population growth in Texas made the demand for UT-Austin far outstrip the number of seats available, so they have greatly expanded and upgraded the 8 UT “satellite” campuses since the 80’s & 90’s, and have added a new Dell Medical School at UT-Austin (in addition to the existing five standalone medical centers, such as MD Anderson). One of the labs they lured from Dartmouth was responsible for mapping the spike protein on the coronavirus that was the key to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

This isn’t to defend UT, because it doesn’t need it (the out of state admission rate is in single digits), but to show that a huge endowment does matter.

https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2021/03/how-ut-research-led-to-the-development-of-the-covid-19-vaccine-in-record-breaking-time/

It’s actually kind of funny to see Dartmouth take credit for the vaccine and mention UT not at all:

https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/groundwork-for-covid-19-vaccine-laid-at-dartmouth/
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