List of land-grant universities

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 categorized as 1862, 1890, and 1994 institutions, based on the date of the legislation that designated most of them with land grant status. For a map and list of all 76 land-grant institutions, see the State Partners page hosted by the Cooperative States Research Education and Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Of the 106 land-grant institutions, all but two (the Community College of Micronesia, and Northern Marianas College) are members of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) (formerly the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges or NASULGC).

Historically black colleges or universities on this list are in italics.

Native American

The 31 tribal colleges of 1994 are represented as a system by the single membership of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC).

The AIHEC is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. None of its member schools are located in Virginia instead they range from Michigan westwards to Alaska and Arizona. Like many American associations, it is headquartered in Alexandria for ready access to Washington, D.C.

By US State

Alabama

• Auburn University (designated as a land-grant college in 1872 under the name Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama)
• Alabama A&M University
• Tuskegee University

Though Alabama A&M is Alabama's official 1890 Morrill Act institution, Tuskegee Institute's mission is so similar to those of the 1890 institutions that it is almost universally regarded as one of them. Tuskegee is a land-grant member of APLU, as are Alabama A&M and Auburn. However, only Alabama A&M and Auburn formally participate in the now-combined Alabama Cooperative Extension System, with Tuskegee listed as a "cooperating partner" in ACES. [2] [3] Tuskegee is also explicitly granted the same status as the 1890 land-grant institutions in a number of Federal laws.)

Tuskegee University (formerly Tuskegee Institute), is a largely privately funded institution in Alabama, which because of its unique history, functions as a de facto land-grant university and has received Smith-Lever Act funds since 1972 to operate its own Cooperative Extension program.

Alaska

• University of Alaska

Arizona

• University of Arizona

Arkansas

• University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) (designated in 1871; opened in 1872)
• University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (formerly Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal)

California

• University of California (designated in 1866; Berkeley opened in 1869)

The whole system is this state's land-grant member of the APLU. University of California, Berkeley was its original land-grant college, but the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Riverside later assumed much of the agricultural role. Thus, there is one school for northern California and one for southern California.

Colorado

• Colorado State University

Connecticut

• University of Connecticut

Originally in 1863 the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale was designated as the state's land-grant college.

Delaware

• University of Delaware (designated on March 14, 1867; reopened in 1870)
• Delaware State University (original name was State College for Colored Students)

Florida

• University of Florida
• Florida A&M University (after the second Morrill Act the name of this institution was State Normal and Industrial College for Colored Students)

Georgia

• University of Georgia

A portion of the University of Georgia funds were used to establish a branch in Dahlonega, Georgia that became North Georgia College & State University.

• Fort Valley State University

Hawaii

• University of Hawaii

Idaho

• University of Idaho (designated in 1889; opened in 1892)

Illinois

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (designated on February 28, 1867; opened in 1868)

Indiana

• Purdue University (designated in 1869)

Indiana accepted the provisions of the Morrill Act on March 6, 1865.

Iowa

• Iowa State University (designated on March 29, 1864)

On September 11, 1862, Iowa became first state in the nation to accept the provisions of the Morrill Act.

Kansas

• Kansas State University (designated on February 16, 1863; opened on September 2, 1863)

Kansas State was the first land-grant college newly created under the Morrill Act.

Kentucky

• University of Kentucky (designated in February 1865)
• Kentucky State University (chartered as the State Normal School for Colored Persons and later renamed Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons)

Louisiana

• Louisiana State University
• Southern University and A&M College (conceived as an institution "for the education of persons of color" became a land grant school in 1890 at that time an Agricultural and Mechanical department was established)

Maine

• University of Maine (designated on February 25, 1865; opened in 1868)

Maryland

• University of Maryland at College Park (designated on March 21, 1865)
• University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

The State of Maryland, in operating its land-grant program at the Maryland Agricultural College at College Park, which did not admit African American students, sought to provide a Land-Grant program for African Americans. In 1919 the state of Maryland assumed control of the academy and changed its name to Eastern Shore Branch of the Maryland Agricultural College.

Massachusetts

• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (one of two privately owned and operated institutions in the original system, the other being Cornell University.)

Michigan

• Michigan State University (designated on March 18, 1863)

Founded in 1855 by the State of Michigan with its own state grants of land, the Michigan State model provided a precedent for the federal Morrill Act of 1862.

Minnesota

• University of Minnesota

The land grant was originally provided in 1865 to a proposed state agricultural college in Glencoe, Minnesota, but was reappropriated to the University of Minnesota by act dated February 18, 1868.

Mississippi

• Mississippi State University
• Alcorn State University

The State of Mississippi granted Alcorn three-fifths of the proceeds earned from the sale of thirty thousand acres of land scrip for agricultural colleges from its beginning it was a land grant college and the money from the sale of the Morrill Act land scrip was used solely for the agricultural and mechanical components of the college.

Missouri

• University of Missouri (designated in 1870)
• Lincoln University

Founded in 1866 as the Lincoln Institute by members of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantry, under the Morrill Act of 1890, Lincoln was designated a land-grant university.

Montana

• Montana State University (Bozeman)

Nebraska

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Nevada

• University of Nevada, Reno

New Hampshire

• University of New Hampshire

New Jersey

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (designated on April 4, 1864)
  • New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Office of Continuing Professional Education
  • School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (formerly Cook College)

New Mexico

• New Mexico State University

New York

• Cornell University (designated on April 27, 1865)

Cornell is a private university with four statutory colleges supported by the State of New York that fulfill its land-grant mission.

North Carolina

• North Carolina State University
• North Carolina A&T State University (founded in 1891 as The Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race)

North Dakota

• North Dakota State University

Ohio

• Ohio State University

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma State University
• Langston University (Founded in 1897 as the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University. Langston University was created as a result of the second Morrill Act in 1890.)

Oregon

• Oregon State University

Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania State University (designated in April 1863)

Rhode Island

• University of Rhode Island

Originally in January 1863 Brown University was designated as the state's land-grant college. The land grant was reappropriated to the University of Rhode Island in 1892.

South Carolina

• Clemson University
• South Carolina State University (Founded in 1896 as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina. It still has the 1890 land-grant legacy of service to the citizenry of the state.)

South Dakota

• South Dakota State University

Tennessee

• University of Tennessee
• Tennessee State University

TSU is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. It was originally founded in 1909 as the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School and became the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal College 2 years later.

Texas

• Texas A&M University
• Prairie View A&M University

Founded in 1876, Prairie View is the second oldest state-sponsored institution of higher education in Texas. Consistent with terms of the federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, which provided public lands for the establishment of colleges, the State of Texas authorized an "Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Benefit of Colored Youth" as part of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University).

Utah

• Utah State University

Vermont

• University of Vermont

Virginia

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Virginia State University (Founded in 1882, as the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. In 1902, the legislature revised the school's charter and renamed it the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute. In 1923, the college was renamed Virginia State College for Negroes. It was designated one of Virginia's land grant colleges in response to the 1890 Amendments to the Morrill Act, which required that states either open their land-grant colleges to all races or else establish a separate land-grant educational facilities for blacks.)

Washington

• Washington State University

West Virginia

• West Virginia University (designated on February 7, 1867)
• West Virginia State University (Established as the West Virginia Colored Institute in 1891 under the second Morrill Act, which provided for land-grant institutions for black students in the 17 states that had segregated schools.)

Wisconsin

• University of Wisconsin–Madison (designated on April 12, 1866)

Wyoming

• University of Wyoming

Associated territories

American Samoa

• American Samoa Community College

District of Columbia

• University of the District of Columbia

Guam

• University of Guam

Micronesia

• Community College of Micronesia

Northern Marianas

• Northern Marianas College

Puerto Rico

• University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

Virgin Islands

• University of the Virgin Islands