List of flagship state universities and their satelites...

Which universtity are you with wmcdonald? Fayetteville State?? I was on the parents council at UNC for 4 years before my oldest graduated and have a son at Wilmington. I did my graduate work at Salem College in Winston-Salem.

 

Tireman,

I went to HS in Houston (Spring Branch) and applied to St. Thomas and got a scholarship there. That was a lifetime ago though . I ended up at Houston Baptist for a bit.

 

My brother-in-law graduated with a MBA from Houston Baptist University in May. I was up for a job there as well

 

Re: Virginia, the Old Dominion, the Mother of Presidents

Texas' consolidation into state university systems is comparatively recent. Many, if not most, of its system schools predate the existence of the system. What was East Texas State University, for instance, is now Texas A & M University--Commerce. Under the system, all are independent schools with their own central administrations, granting their own degrees. They are not branch campuses (with due respect to the Houston system, which I don't know much about). Some schools do indeed have branch campuses, but those branches are not separate system members. Texas underwent this consolidation, it seems, largely for administrative and fiscal reasons.

It seems that many other states have done the same thing.

marilynd

 

Ohio University Not Small

I was accepted to Ohio University for undergrad (went to Northwestern though) and I'm about to enter a master program at Ohio University, so I'm familiar with the university. Ohio University is not a little university, it is a major state university that makes some public ivy lists. It may not be as well known as Ohio State due to athletics with Ohio State having the perennial Big Ten and National Title contending football team and a higher profile athletic program. However, Ohio University has an enrollment of more than 24,000 on the main campus and 39,000 total; so it is as big as several Big Ten schools. In addition to the main campus in Athens, it has satellite locations in St. Clairsville, Zanesville, Chillicothe, Ironton, and Lancaster. In USNews rankings it is in the 120s, which puts it ahead or in the same category as other major state universities like Kentucky, Washington State, Oregon State, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, West Virginia, Utah, Louisiana State, etc... Again, I think sometimes less prominence in college sports sometimes make people think the lesser known university is small.