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Land-grant universities and colleges
- Cornell UniversityCornell University opened its doors on the 7th of October, 1868, with 412 male students walking onto a hillside farm in Ithaca, New York.
- University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley opened its doors in Oakland in 1869 with ten faculty members and forty male students.
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology was chartered on the 10th of April 1861, and two days later the first battle of the Civil War broke out.
- 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…
- Michigan State UniversityMichigan State University opened its doors on the 13th of May 1857, with three buildings, five faculty members, and 63 male students.
- 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.
- 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 California, IrvineThe University of California, Irvine is a public research university built on land that used to be agricultural ranchland in Orange County.
- Morrill Land-Grant ActsThe Morrill Land-Grant Acts trace back to 1796. That year, President George Washington used an address to Congress to call for public support of agricultural…
- Oklahoma State UniversityOklahoma State University began with a date that most people would never associate with the founding of a university: Christmas Day, 1890.