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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Land grant universities - created to provide a practical education in ag and mechanical subjects especially, are sometimes what you’re thinking of.  https://www.aplu.org/about-us/history-of-aplu/what-is-a-land-grant-university/

Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers are land grants, as are Purdue, Iowa State, VT, Michigan State, NC State, etc. Today, the land grants are often very strong in engineering and agriculture. [/quote]

Interesting, Cornell is a land grant university like MSU, WVU, PSU, VT, NCST etc.[/quote]

Must be why it's the only ivy I'd consider for stem[/quote]

Yep. Traditionally, STEM subjects like engineering were regarded as trades that were beneath the elites that populated the Ivies. Which is why the Ivies are mostly woefully behind in STEM. For a very long time, it was a class thing. In the meantime, other privates like MIT, Stanford, Rice, Duke, CalTech, and Northwestern invested much more wisely in their STEM programs. And of course the public universities were there all along. No school has sent more astronauts into space than Purdue. And many of the publics continue to dominate that space - Georgia Tech, UIUC, Berkeley, Michigan, Maryland, Texas and others. Besides Cornell - a land grant university that exists to educate the public - the Ivies, with the exception of some math programs, are mostly pretty mediocre in STEM. [/quote]

Does anyone even know what is in STEM?[/quote]

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