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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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- University of South CarolinaOn the 19th of December 1801, the South Carolina General Assembly passed a legislative charter creating South Carolina College.