Excerpted from article in UT News
TIME Magazine named UT Austin as one of the Best Colleges for Future Leaders in the United States. UT earned the No. 14 ranking, which was highest among Texas universities and third highest among all public schools. This achievement reflects UT’s continued commitment to becoming the world’s highest-impact public research university.
TIME and Statista looked at the resumes of 2,000 top leaders in the country to see where they earned their degrees. The analysis included politicians, CEOs, union leaders, Nobel winners and more across various sectors. Notably, the research found many schools to make the list featured exceptional business and law programs, two areas where UT shines. The McCombs School of Business (No. 20 in U.S. World News & Report) and the School of Law (No. 16 in U.S. News & World Report) were listed as strong programs under the University’s inclusion on the list.
The ranking notes “what distinguishes these schools, experts say, is not necessarily that they teach students to be better leaders, but that alums receive more opportunities, and many companies have a vested interested in hiring them. Whatever a student may have learned at school, an elite diploma signals at least two things to prospective employers: survival of a difficult admissions process and a high likelihood of intelligence.”
Each year in the U.S., nearly 5,000 people die waiting for a kidney transplant, with wait time heavily dependent on where a person lives. At the same time, an estimated 3,500 donated kidneys are discarded because they’re no longer viable. This troubling imbalance of organ scarcity and massive wastefulness is tied in part to limited organ sharing across the country. Current policies prioritize local matching, and surgeons are often reluctant to accept donated kidneys that require multiple flight connections.
