Flagships are rarely in major cities
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Anonymous
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I just realized this. Is there a reason? I was talking with another parent about whether her child was ready for life in a big city when they left for college. But afterward, I realized that since the student will need to attend a public school for financial reasons, they will most likely attend college in a small town in the middle of nowhere. I can only think of a few states where the main campus of their public system is in a real city: Hunter College in NYC, Cal and UCLA in California, and UT in Austin, Texas. Does Rutgers count? Denver?
Miami, Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Nashville don't have a flagship, right? |
Anonymous
| Uw is in Seattle |
Anonymous
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Wisconsin in in the State Capital, Madison.
Michigan State is in the State Capital, Lansing, Ann Arbor is 20 minutes from the Detroit Airport. Columbus, OH is a majar league city. Georgia Tech is in Atlanta. University of Florida is in the State Capital. The list goes on and on, these are off the top of my head. |
Anonymous
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Many of them started as Land Grant Universities to teach Agricultural and Engineering related disciplines. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-grant_university
They were more rural by design. |
Anonymous
| Hunter College is not the New York State flagship school. It’s not even part of SUNY, which is the State University of New York and has no flagship. Rather, it’s part of CUNY—City University of New York—which, by definition, is located in New York City. |
Anonymous
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Hunter College is not the main campus of NY state's public college system. Hunter college is part of CUNY, New York City's public system, which would explain why it is in the city (along with City College, Queens College, Brooklyn College, etc.)
NY state does not have one flagship. It has four 'main' colleges: Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook. |
Anonymous
| U. of Hawaii is in Honolulu. I don't know if I would consider Hunter a state flagship. Though there are public colleges in NYC (including Cuny |
Anonymous
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why does the student need to attend the flagship? there are many colleges that aren't necessarily a flagship but are still good schools and offer a more urban environment: Pitt, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State (ok, Raleigh isn't super urban), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Temple, VCU, University of Houston...
Flagships in big cities: University of Washington is in Seattle Ohio State is in Columbus which is the largest city in OH University of Maryland is in College Park which has excellent access to DC University of Minnesota is in Minneapolis/St. Paul University of Utah in SLC Arizona State and U of Arizona are both in metro areas University of Vermont- Burlington isn't exactly a big city, but it's at least the biggest in VT |
Anonymous
| ^oops, I accidentally hit enter before I was done with my comment. |
Anonymous
Try again. Florida’s flagship state school is in Gainesville. Last time I checked, Tallahassee is the capital of Florida. Not saying that there isn’t a Univ of Florida campus there. But it’s not the flagship. |
Anonymous
Florida State?? |
Anonymous
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A lot of large universities are not in big cities becaues they need space for research.
Some universities actually started out as "satellite" campuses for larger flagship universities that needed more space for research. For example, UC Davis was a satellite campus for UC Berkley for agricutural studies. Also, it's good for the economies of the small towns to have a major university located in/close by. It means tons of jobs, both professional (like professors, medical staff, etc.) and non professional (bus drivers, custodial, etc.) Land will be cheaper, so the university can buy more to accommodate growth. |
Anonymous
University of Florida at Gainesville is the flagship campus. |
Anonymous
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OP here. Madison is not a major city. Nor is Columbus. Lansing? LOL! The only major city in Florida IMO is Miami. Georgia Tech is not the University of Georgia. That school is in Athens. I think the people from University of Michigan would go crazy if I suggested they're really in Detroit since they're so in love with their small college town of Ann Arbor.
I would add Seattle UW and ASU in Phoenix to the list of flagships in major cities. And I guess people don't want for Hunter to count, so now I'll take NYC off the list. And nobody has pointed this out, but some states don't have a major city, so I guess there is that. |
Anonymous
It could be argued that University of Arizona in Tucson is the flagship. |