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Yep, I'm a guy who is interested in universities and college towns and I have started a few threads on them. I'm going to make an assertion that the truly great college towns tend to have one thing in common: they are home to their state's flagship public university.
Would you agree or disagree with that statement.
Just listing that type of town......State College, Charlottesville, Chapel Hill, Athens, Gainesville, Oxford, Ann Arbor, Bloomington, Madison, Iowa City, Colombia (MO), Lawrence, Austin, Boulder, Berkeley and the like.....gives me the impressions that the flagship public university seems like a really big piece of the puzzle in making a great college town.
Ithaca is home to Cornell University, an Ivy League school of over 20,000 students, most of whom study at its local campus.[2] Ithaca College is located just south of the city in the Town of Ithaca, adding to the area's "college town" atmosphere. Nearby is Tompkins Cortland Community College.
No. Nearly all towns that have flagship state universities are great college towns, but there are many good or great college towns that either 1)have a non flagship public university or 2) are anchored by a private university.
Yep, I'm a guy who is interested in universities and college towns and I have started a few threads on them. I'm going to make an assertion that the truly great college towns tend to have one thing in common: they are home to their state's flagship public university.
Would you agree or disagree with that statement.
Just listing that type of town......State College, Charlottesville, Chapel Hill, Athens, Gainesville, Oxford, Ann Arbor, Bloomington, Madison, Iowa City, Colombia (MO), Lawrence, Austin, Boulder, Berkeley and the like.....gives me the impressions that the flagship public university seems like a really big piece of the puzzle in making a great college town.
You don't have to have THE flagship university for the state, but you should have a reasonably high end flagship university to be a great college town.
Nobody is going to argue that Blacksburg, Raleigh, Tallahassee, Starkville, East Lansing, West Lafayette, Ames, Manhattan, College Station, Fort Collins, etc. aren't legitimate college towns either.
But simply having a college does not make a college town either.
flagship means the main campus of a university system.
For example, the flagship of the Uni of Texas system is UT- Austin. The flagship of the Texas A&M system is Texas A&M - College Station. It is not correct to say UT-Austin is the flagship of the state.
Texas A&M - College Station is more of a college town than UT-Austin.
flagship means the main campus of a university system.
For example, the flagship of the Uni of Texas system is UT- Austin. The flagship of the Texas A&M system is Texas A&M - College Station. It is not correct to say UT-Austin is the flagship of the state.
Texas A&M - College Station is more of a college town than UT-Austin.
I agree with you that that is one definition. The other definition though would be the premier public university in the state, usually the oldest one. I subscribe to the idea that some states have more than one flagship....you'd be right in saying that the state of Texas has two (UT-Austin and TAMU) because the state does indeed officially identify them both as such....and other in-state institutions, like UH and TT, try to get the state to designate them as the third flagship. I would consider states like California (Cal, UCLA), Michigan (U-M, MSU), Indiana (IU, Purdue) and Florida (UF, FSU) to be dual flagship states, among a very few others. And, of course there are many states with only one flagship, such as Illinois (UIUC), Wisconsin (UW-Madison), and Missouri (Mizzou).
UC Santa Cruz and UC Santa Barbara in Isla Vista are great college towns without "flagship" universities. The same could be said of so-called "party school" colleges.
in my view, land grant universities tend to be good college towns, because they were established in rural areas. Clemson, Va Tech, Auburn, Miss State, Iowa State etc.
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