Land-Grant Universities

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.

Alabama
    Auburn University (designated as land grant college in 1872)
    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. 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