Nebraska had their AAU designation removed for non-academic reasons. AAU criteria requires that the colleges that qualify the university for AAU membership all be in the same market. It was later pointed out that Nebraska's medical school is in Omaha, and their AAU membership was rescinded.
The UNT law school and the UNT medical school are considered to be in the same metropolitan area as the flagship campus. North Texas needs to keep raising the research budget until it's in the top third of R1 schools. It will probably take another decade to accomplish but the school is well on track as it's already mid-R1 for research spending. Texas needs more AAU level colleges as UT, A&M, and Rice are the only members. UH and Tech have both already met the AAU research investment criteria and should soon, like USF has been, be recognized with that distinction.
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