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View Poll Results: When choosing a university does it matter to you if it is a "Land Grant" institution?
No, I don't know what the term "Land Grant" means. 8 15.38%
No, I know what the term means but it DOESN'T matter to me in choosing a university. 38 73.08%
Yes, I know what the term means and it DOES matter to me in choosing a university. 6 11.54%
Voters: 52. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-30-2015, 09:41 PM
 
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So, these are the options:

No, I don't know what "Land Grant" means.
No, I know what the term means but it doesn't influence my decision in choosing a university.
Yes, I know what the term means and it does influence my decision in choosing a university.
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:50 PM
 
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Which by the way, I attended, and DD now attends a land grant U. But that wasn't the deciding factor. Unless you consider that university wouldn't have been there otherwise.
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Old 01-31-2015, 11:36 PM
 
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Land grant trivia: Rutgers is the only Land Grant university that isn't named after its state.

P.S. Why on earth would that influence someone's decision one way or another? Just askin'.
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Old 01-31-2015, 11:42 PM
 
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Land grant trivia: Rutgers is the only Land Grant university that isn't named after its state.

P.S. Why on earth would that influence someone's decision one way or another? Just askin'.
Cornell is also land grant.
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Old 01-31-2015, 11:49 PM
 
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I got intrigued by this because North Dakota State University has a tv ad that spends several expensive seconds focusing on the written phrase "land grant" on tv stations in nearby states. And I thought to myself, why on earth would a university bother to advertise "land grant" status? There are so many other phrases they could have chosen to focus on. But someone on the ND forum said that NDSU is very proud of their land grant status. But there is a land grant university in almost every state, so who cares? Especially young people going into college. My bet was that most of them don't even know what the term means. But no one is admitting to ignorance in this poll!

All you lurkers, I've come to believe that you don't know what it means, you just don't want to admit it!
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Old 02-01-2015, 08:50 AM
 
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Cornell is also land grant.
Thanks. That piece of trivia has been rattling around in my brain for decades. I'll have to clear it out!
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Old 02-01-2015, 09:02 AM
 
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Land grant trivia: Rutgers is the only Land Grant university that isn't named after its state.

P.S. Why on earth would that influence someone's decision one way or another? Just askin'.
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Cornell is also land grant.
Tuskegee, Prairie View, Purdue, Langston, Fort Valley State, and many of the tribal colleges are also land grant colleges.
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Old 02-01-2015, 09:41 AM
 
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Land grant trivia: Rutgers is the only Land Grant university that isn't named after its state.
The official name of Rutgers is: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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Old 02-01-2015, 09:48 AM
 
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TAMU is land grant.
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Old 02-01-2015, 09:58 AM
 
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I doubt if anyone, anywhere, would care. How would Land Grant be a factor?
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