"Hook'em" Be a longhorn! UTA = UT Arlington, not Austin. UT Austin is the flagship of UT system; when people call UT, they mean UT Austin.
Apparently, ND and UT Austin is not on the same level. If you want to sit in the class taught by professors from FASB Board, GASB Board, PCAOB, AICPA Board of Examination, Congress Tax-writing committee, American Taxation Assocation editorial board, American Accounting Association editorial board, Internal Revnue Service Advisory Board, and International Auditing Standard Setting Board, UT Austin may be of your choice.
By the way, on professonal level, I would tell you that for most MPA students, auditing firms is used as insurance policy, b/c a lot of them got into big investment banking and consulting firms.