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    A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated...
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    This is a list of land-grant colleges and universities in the United States of America and its associated territories. Land-grant institutions are often...
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    The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales...
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  • A land grant is a gift of real estate—land or its use privileges—made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as...
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    of Sea Grant colleges in universities that wished to develop oceanic work. The name "Sea Grant" was chosen to draw a parallel with the land-grant college...
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  • of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) is a research, policy, and advocacy organization of public research universities, land-grant institutions...
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  • are partners in the initiative. The centers were established at land-grant universities to serve different geographic regions of the United States, in...
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  • State University, commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU, is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses...
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  • Mechanical Universities created by the Morrill Land-Grant Acts: Alabama A&M University Florida A&M University Louisiana State University and Agricultural...
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    Jonathan Baldwin Turner (category Yale University alumni)
    movement to create agriculture colleges, and campaigned to institute land grant universities. He established the use of the thorny "hedge apple" planted to...
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  • scholarship opportunities in the oceanic Sea Grant and agricultural Land Grant fields. The catch-all term Space Grant refers back to these previous federal programs...
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    The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California...
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  • Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama. With more than 26,800 undergraduate students, over 6,100...
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    The Maxwell Land Grant, also known as the Beaubien-Miranda Land Grant, was a 1,714,765-acre (6,939.41 km2) Mexican land grant in Colfax County, New Mexico...
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  • Southern University and A&M College (Southern University, Southern, SUBR or SU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
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  • Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university based in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs...
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    The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the...
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  • Land grants in New Mexico and Colorado were awarded to individuals and communities by the Spanish and Mexican governments to encourage settlement and...
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  • The University of Maine (UMaine) is a public land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine...
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    New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a public land-grant research university in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Founded in 1888, it is the state's...
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    Alcorn State University (Alcorn State, ASU or Alcorn) is a public historically black land-grant university adjacent to Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded...
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  • The Atrisco Land Grant (merced) of 1692 is one among many Spanish land grants in New Mexico. It is in the Atrisco Valley (Valle de Atrisco) south of Albuquerque...
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    The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, the system...
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  • Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), commonly known as Florida A&M, is a public historically black land-grant university in Tallahassee, Florida...
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    The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, the University of Nevada, or UNR) is a public land-grant research university in Reno, Nevada. It is the state's...
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  • Valley State University (FVSU, formerly Fort Valley State College and Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School) is a public land-grant historically black...
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  • South Dakota State University (SDSU or SD State) is a public land-grant research university in Brookings, South Dakota. Founded in 1881, it is the state's...
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  • West Virginia State University (WVSU) is a public historically black, land-grant university in Institute, West Virginia. Founded in 1891 as the West Virginia...
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    were concessions and land grants made by the Spanish and Mexican governments from 1775 to 1846. The Spanish Concessions of land were made to retired soldiers...
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  • Navajo Technical University (NTU) is a public tribal land-grant university in Crownpoint, New Mexico, with sites in the towns of Chinle, Arizona and Teec...
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