The rather copious research I had to do on the sizes of the schools was a bit surprising. I figured that there'd be a single source for that information, but not as near as I can tell. I did an interesting slideshow by UTD

An few interesting tidbits:

They're about as competitive as Texas A&M!

UNT is not only bigger than Tech, but it's more academically competitive.

The school is some 75% male. I wonder why.

The University of Houston students have lower scores than University of Texas at Arlington, but have a lower admission rate (meaning that they accept less than apply).

UT and A&M apparently accept more than 50% of those that apply. Wouldn't have thought that. I guess a lot of people aren't bothering to apply anymore?

UH pays its professors better than Tech does and male professors more than A&M.

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I also talked about the movie Necessary Roughness, which features the Texas State Fighting Armadillos. They also have a fictional rival (Texas University Colts), but from what I recall the rest of the universities were real. One of them was the Kansas Jayhawks and the other was... Southwest Texas State Bobcats (who, incidentally, beat the tar out of the Dillos). So apparently Texas State beat had the tar beat out of it by its future self.

This might seem less profound at a time of day other than two in the morning.

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Did you know UTPA existed? I didn't know UTPA existed...

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Universities.com is a very helpful site though their alphabetizing is weird to the max. For instance, UT is not under "U" for University and you can't find it by looking for "Texas"... it's under "The".