Flagships are rarely in major cities
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Anonymous
Columbus is larger than Cleveland or Cincinnati. If the largest city in a state doesn’t qualify as a major city, then the lack of major cities may be the answer to your question |
Anonymous
| I’m confused, OP. Why did you ask the other parent if the kid was ready to go live in a big city in the first place? What a strange thing to even think about. |
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Reading the responses, I think not everyone is using the same definition for "Flagship."
Is a flagship always "University of X state?" Or is "X State University" ever the "flagship?" What about "Tech" (such as Georgia Tech?) |
Anonymous
Not always. The Ohio State University is the flagship in Ohio and the University of Ohio is a private college. Same in PA with UPenn and Penn State. I think a "Flagship" can be a state school that is intended to be the premier school in a state and that, in rare cases, there can be two. Indiana University and Purdue University each function as a flagship in Indiana due to the division of subject areas, although if you had to choose between the two, IU would be the flagship. UCLA and Cal Berkeley could be similar, although I am less familiar there. Some are in big cities and some are in cities that became big (OSU in Columbus and UT in Austin are the best examples of that, probably). |
Anonymous
| It is typical for the Capitol of a state to be somewhere other than the state's major economic centers to attempt to keep power from concentrating too much in one place, so some states may have used similar logic in placing flagship Universities. |
Anonymous
OOCh! I do think U of Florida is definitely the flagship and considerably higher ranked. But you're right of course that FSU is in Tallahassee, the capitol. |
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When you ask Mr. Google…
In general, when people talk about flagship universities, they are referring to the most prominent public university of their state. It is usually the first public university that was established in the state and receives the most state support. |
Anonymous
| As someone previously said, it's because most state flagships are land grant schools. In the 1860s, the federal government gave federal land to the states to use to create universities. Some of the land was sold to raise money. Some of the land was used to house the universities. Federal land in most places tends to rural, not urban. So they're well away from most major cities in most places. (The states could have bought different land to build their flagships on, of course. That's an extra expense, though, so most didn't.) |
Anonymous
Ok, so for Georgia, is it University of Georgia (Athens) or Georgia Tech (Atlanta?) |
Anonymous
LSU is Louisiana’s flagship. At the time that it was founded, the University of Louisiana already existed, but it was later privatized and became Tulane. There is also now a newer University of Louisiana system in the state, but they’re renamed directional universities. LSU is in Baton Rouge, which is the state capital and a good sized city for Louisiana, but of course not the major city (although really the New Orleans and Baton Rouge suburbs have just about grown together). |
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Pitt
South Carolina Texas |
Anonymous
Boy, lots of people wrong on lots of facts in this thread. Ohio University in Athens, Ohio is NOT private. |
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Also, it helps to have lower housing costs and more availability for faculty and students |
Anonymous
Pitt is not the flagship. What about Penn State?? |
Anonymous
Florida is definitely the flagship, not Florida State. |