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I think MIT is the only land grant school,

Assuming you meant "private" land grant school.
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In which case, Cornell would count too.  They are NY's land-grant school, and the ALS, ILR, and HumEc colleges are NY state schools, while the others are private.
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In fact, somehow I dropped the word "private" while writing. I also forgot about Cornell.

Cornell's case is complicated. Cornell has four publicly supported colleges (the three you mention plus the Vet school that only has grad students). These colleges get appropriations through SUNY, are accountable to SUNY for these funds, and offer NY residents reduced tuition. Nonetheless, there is a legal opinion from Eliot Spitzer when he was Attorney General of NY that "with respect to their academic activities" they should be considered private. Just what that means seems to be constantly up in the air.

My understanding is that the land grant supported these colleges only, primarily the Ag and Vet school, and was the reason they developed in this odd manner.

And it turns out there is one more, though also a complicated case. That is Tuskegee University in Alabama. My understanding is that it is not formally a land grant university, and wasn't designated as such in the original legislation. However, apparently it operates as a de facto land grant university with similar agricultural outreach and gets funds from continuing land grant programs.


Stanford football outdraws all three of these private, land grant university football programs.

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[quote author=CowboyIndian link=topic=15533.msg169124#msg169124 date=1472661425]
[quote author=CTcard link=topic=15533.msg169106#msg169106 date=1472650261]


I think MIT is the only land grant school,

Assuming you meant "private" land grant school.
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In which case, Cornell would count too.  They are NY's land-grant school, and the ALS, ILR, and HumEc colleges are NY state schools, while the others are private.
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In fact, somehow I dropped the word "private" while writing. I also forgot about Cornell.

Cornell's case is complicated. Cornell has four publicly supported colleges (the three you mention plus the Vet school that only has grad students). These colleges get appropriations through SUNY, are accountable to SUNY for these funds, and offer NY residents reduced tuition. Nonetheless, there is a legal opinion from Eliot Spitzer when he was Attorney General of NY that "with respect to their academic activities" they should be considered private. Just what that means seems to be constantly up in the air.

My understanding is that the land grant supported these colleges only, primarily the Ag and Vet school, and was the reason they developed in this odd manner.

And it turns out there is one more, though also a complicated case. That is Tuskegee University in Alabama. My understanding is that it is not formally a land grant university, and wasn't designated as such in the original legislation. However, apparently it operates as a de facto land grant university with similar agricultural outreach and gets funds from continuing land grant programs.


Stanford football outdraws all three of these private, land grant university football programs.