200m bronze medalist online or extended campus student?

[Thorne]

Little rant. When I heard that Olympian Gabby Thomas, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in neurobiology from Harvard, was training and studying public health and epidemiology at UT in Austin, I knew something was off. UT-Austin doesn't have an MS in epidemiology or any MPH program.

Her LinkedIn profile says that she's actually attending the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, which has a pretty good public health school. Understandably, she's training at UT-Austin because they're excellent in track and field. The media has been confused. They've said she's a graduate student at Texas University (no such thing), Texas (that's UT-Austin), and University of Texas (also UT-Austin). Everyone seems to know the difference between all the University of California schools but can't understand that the UT and Texas A&M systems have multiple independent universities. No one I've come across thinks that UCLA and Berkeley are the same school.

She's either in the online MPH program or attending the Austin campus. UTHSCH also has extension campuses in Brownsville, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso.

I don't think people know the differences between the CA schools as much as you might think!  For instance, there are 2 separate systems: the UC-system (10 schools), and the CSU-system (23 schools).  But I think the main difference is that there isn't a single "main" campus of any of these.  They are ALWAYS called by their campus name or a nickname: hence UCLA, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, San Diego State, Sac State, etc.  

The ONLY exception is that if you say "Cal" then you're talking about UC Berkeley (it was first).  But it's not a "main" campus like the TX system seems to have, it's just one in a set of schools.

I think this is probably why. Honestly, if you don't live in Texas, TAMU Commerce probably seems like a business school that is part of TAMU. West TAMU sounds like a different campus and TAMU International seems like a sort of extension school.

As for the UT system, I think it should be more similar to the UC system, but the reality is that the UC schools are often world-renowned, as ss20ts said, while the only UT schools I heard of as a Texas resident were UT Austin and UT Dallas, which even the people in my area - the bloody DFW metroplex - often thought were just different campuses of the same school, rather than different schools in the system. Probably because they're called "University of Texas at [Location]."