Did a little research on college towns and thought map thread bros might be interested. I was curious about the locations of each state's main flagship university. (University of Alaska, University of Idaho, etc.) I wanted to see how many were in "college towns" versus the state capital and/or state's largest city. Here are my results. Spoiler Located in state capital (6/50) Located in state's largest city (8/50) Alabama - Tuscaloosa Alaska - Fairbanks Arizona - Tucson Arkansas - Fayetteville California - Berkeley Colorado - Boulder Connecticut - Storrs Delaware - Newark Florida - Gainesville Georgia - Athens Hawaii - Honolulu Idaho - Moscow Illinois - Champaign Indiana - Bloomington Iowa - Iowa City Kansas - Lawrence Kentucky - Lexington Louisiana - Lafayette Maine - Orono Maryland - College Park Massachusetts - Amherst Michigan - Ann Arbor Minnesota - Minneapolis Mississippi - Oxford Missouri - Columbia Montana - Missoula Nebraska - Lincoln Nevada - Reno New Hampshire - Durham New Jersey - New Brunswick New Mexico - Albuquerque New York - New York North Carolina - Chapel Hill North Dakota - Grand Forks Ohio - Athens Oklahoma - Norman Oregon - Eugene Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Rhode Island - Kingston South Carolina - Columbia South Dakota - Vermillion Tennessee - Knoxville Texas - Austin Utah - Salt Lake City Vermont - Burlington Virginia - Charlottesville Washington - Seattle West Virginia - Morgantown Wisconsin - Madison Wyoming - Laramie Cliffs: I think South Carolina kinda fucked up by locating in the state capital instead of a college town elsewhere. However, I see there are a few others that went our way
They actually help my "argument", because they're very successful academically/athletically/financially and they are in the state capital. NC State, Georgia Tech, LSU, FSU, Michigan State, Vanderbilt, Boston College are some other P5 schools located in state capitals
Florida doesn’t have a recognized flagship university. There are three schools recognized as Pre-eminent Universities(UF, FSU, USF). I see what you were doing though.
Other states could be way different. In SC, the Univ of SC preceded Clemson by almost 100 years. I am interested in the thought process of where states located their main/original college and how that played out. I used “university of state” as a quick heuristic and did not research further state higher ed history
The University of Michigan was originally founded in Detroit - which was the capital of the territory at the time. PSU is likely the flagship university of Pennsylvania. I have no idea which SUNY campus would be New York’s.
Flagship/main/original. Interchange the words as needed. Bit of a moving target, but I’m talking about the first major college to locate in each state and where was it sited. Ok Harvard was the very first college in the United States. I put UMass on my list for neatness. I acknowledge we have some apples to oranges comparisons going on here
Historically, a small town seems to have been much better for the prestige of an (undergraduate) college. However, a big city is an advantage to a graduate or professional school
At the time of the University of Alabama's founding (1831) Tuscaloosa was the state capital (1826-1846). I'm sure there are other examples of migrating state capitals that coincide with flagship founding dates, would be interesting to drill down further into the numbers. Made a couple quick and dirty maps using your post as the source data. (Also assumed largest is based on population and not area)
Orange shading known to cause alcoholism, blindly following lies of reality tv show hosts with great fervor, and a love for shit football.
This video has so many mind blowing facts it's hard to keep up. With that said, some of my favorites from it that I wasn't aware of... @5:42 When you get a kidney transplant, they typically just leave your original kidneys in you and put the new kidney in your pelvis. @5:49 A single litter of cats or dogs can have more than one father. @6:05 Sharks pre-date trees by approx. 100 million years. @7:06 Australia is wider than the moon.
Human twins can have different fathers. https://www.today.com/parents/mother-gives-birth-twins-different-dads-2D80554133
Myrtle Beach has moved to NC and Savannah has moved to SC...we'll take it. Ps what is this from? Didn't know there was a popular road trip map of the East
Not a road map, it’s a nautical route/map. You can navigate the eastern half of the continental United States in a complete loop. I’ve heard it referred to as the “Great American Loop”.
It took me way too long to realize that the map was being presented as a rebuttal to the “landlocked” argument being presented in the previous post. But it think that post was created as just another way to slam Nebraska