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Flagship universities in the United States
- University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley opened its doors in Oakland in 1869 with ten faculty members and forty male students. The land it was built on, the name above its gate, and the very idea of what a public university could become were…
- University of Texas at AustinThe University of Texas at Austin opened its doors on the 15th of September 1883, more than half a century after the first written promise of a public university appeared in the 1827 constitution of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas.…
- Rutgers UniversityOn the 10th of November 1766, a royal charter signed by William Franklin established Queen's College in New Jersey. The document named the institution after Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and created both a college and a…
- University of KentuckyThe University of Kentucky opened its doors in 1866 with 190 students and 10 professors, on a campus borrowed from the estate of Henry Clay. That first class arrived not to a grand institution but to a repurposed fairground in Lexington, a…
- University of TennesseeThe University of Tennessee was founded on the 10th of September, 1794, two full years before Tennessee itself became the 16th state of the Union. That timing is remarkable. The institution that would grow into a flagship research…
- University of Colorado BoulderThe University of Colorado Boulder opened its doors on the 5th of September, 1877, with a student body that was, by any modern measure, startlingly small: 15 students enrolled in the college proper and 50 more in a preparatory school…
- Purdue UniversityPurdue University sits on the western bank of the Wabash River in West Lafayette, Indiana, and it has sent more people to space than almost any institution on Earth. Twenty-seven of its graduates have become astronauts. Neil Armstrong, who…
- University of North TexasThe University of North Texas sits in Denton, a city of roughly 170,000 people in the northern reaches of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Founded in 1890, UNT has grown from a teachers college into one of the largest research universities…
- University of OklahomaThe University of Oklahoma was founded in 1890, before Oklahoma itself existed as a state. For seventeen years, it operated in Oklahoma Territory, neighboring Indian Territory, teaching students in a region that had not yet been admitted…
- University of South CarolinaOn the 19th of December 1801, the South Carolina General Assembly passed a legislative charter creating South Carolina College. Governor John Drayton initiated this act to promote harmony between the Lowcountry and the Backcountry regions…