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Only if we throw out all of the truly meaningful numbers. You know, the ones that every single university ranking system in existence uses DUE TO THEIR SIGNIFICANCE. Let me know when LSU is anywhere nearly as respected as Tulane is academically on a national level or their grads earn anywhere near Tulane on average. I'll probably be waiting an extremely long time...

As an institution of overall higher learning LSU is respected more than Tulane because Tulane is small and provincial and doesn't have the desire or ability to offer the wide range of programs that LSU has.

Tulane does zero research on so many subjects (agriculture, geography, forestry are just a few) that LSU has ph.d. programs in. LSU produces more knowledge than Tulane.

Go ask faculty at Harvard or Yale or Chicago and Hopkins and ask them if a university with the level of research and graduate studies like LSU is below Tulane. LSU is a comprehensive research university, Tulane is not. Ask them how important NSF money is? LSU produces knowledge in important subjects like English, Geography, Forestry, Dairy Science, Food Science, and Political Science. Tulane does not. Tulane is small and selective but LSU is world-class university.

More students from more countries come to LSU than Tulane. I'd say the planet has spoken.

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Posted by Ralph_Wiggum

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Posted on 9/13/09 at 3:29 pm to Ralph_Wiggum

Oh another thing. I live a few miles from the University of Minnesota and I know a lot of people who work there and study there at all levels. LSU is more respected as an institution of higher learning than Tulane.

Tulane is not even considered a peer institution of places like Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan State, Iowa State, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Penn State, and Purdue because Tulane is a small private school that does not have the number of research institutes and graduate programs that LSU has.

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Posted by Night Man

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Posted on 9/13/09 at 3:33 pm to Ralph_Wiggum

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As an institution of overall higher learning LSU is respected more than Tulane

You have written a lot of ridiculous things in this thread, but that is by far the best. Do you seriously, honestly believe that? LSU has a horrible reputation nationally. It's almost thought of as a joke. Tulane is one of the only universities (along with Stanford, Duke, University of Chicago, and a few others) offered affiliate membership in ivy league clubs. Are you just arguing for the sake of arguing? I have an extremely difficult time believing that you're serious...

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Go ask faculty at Harvard or Yale or Chicago and Hopkins and ask them if a university with the level of research and graduate studies like LSU is below Tulane.

Then why is LSU's peer assessment score terrible? Faculty at the universities of the schools you mentioned fill those surveys out, and they all have Tulane in an entirely different class than LSU. That is factual, not an opinion like almost everything you are stating.

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More students from more countries come to LSU than Tulane. I'd say the planet has spoken.

Bull. shite. Tulane has many international students, and also has campuses in Latin America and Asia. You really have no idea what you're talking about. Tulane is small and regional? Where are LSU's international campuses?

This is seriously entertaining for me. Keep going, you're starting to make yourself look less and less knowledgeable, which I didn't think was possible at the beginning of this argument