So how does the University of Minnesota do

in comparison with other public research

universities - from the students' pov?

Not so well.

From Forbes:

62 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
65 University of California, Berkeley
71 University of California, Los Angeles
92 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
93 University of Florida
97 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

107 University of Washington
138 University of Texas at Austin
139 University of California, San Diego
192 Pennsylvania State University

201 University of Pittsburgh
212 University of Wisconsin, Madison
222 Indiana University, Bloomington
246 Ohio State University
282 Michigan State University

315 University of Iowa
362 Purdue University

418 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

442 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

U of M ranking in the BigTen publics: 10/11.

Wise choice in adding Nebraska to the BigTen.

It improved our rankings!

Good thing we didn't add Pitt to the BigTen. They would have bested us in football AND academic rankings.

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