Land-grant Institutions
Land-grant institutions were established under the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 (with tribal land-grants added in 1994) to broaden access to higher education in agriculture, science, engineering, and the practical professions. Their federal research and extension mission is administered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA), and they are represented by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). This dataset includes 122 Land-grant Institutions across the United States, enrolling about 2,061,249 students in total.
Of these, 114 are public and 8 private. The largest by enrollment include TAUS, OSUC, and UIU. Among institutions that report the figure, the median graduation rate is 55% and the median average net price is $13,975.
122 institutions
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New Town, North Dakota
Oglala Lakota College
Kyle, South Dakota
Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, Ohio
Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus
University Park, Pennsylvania
Prairie View A & M University
Prairie View, Texas
Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, Indiana
Red Lake Nation College
Red Lake, Minnesota
Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Salish Kootenai College
Pablo, Montana
Sinte Gleska University
Mission, South Dakota
Sisseton Wahpeton College
Sisseton, South Dakota
Sitting Bull College
Fort Yates, North Dakota
South Carolina State University
Orangeburg, South Carolina
South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota
Southern University and A & M College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Southern University Law Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Stone Child College
Box Elder, Montana
Tennessee State University
Nashville, Tennessee
Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee
Tohono O'odham Community College
Sells, Arizona
Turtle Mountain Community College
Belcourt, North Dakota
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, Alabama
United Tribes Technical College
Bismarck, North Dakota
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, California
University of California - Davis
Davis, California
University of California - Irvine
Irvine, California
University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
University of California - Merced
Merced, California
University of California - Riverside
Riverside, California
University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, California
University of California - San Francisco
San Francisco, California
University of California - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
University of California - Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
University of Guam
Mangilao, Guam
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
Frequently asked questions
- What is a Land-grant Institution?
- Land-grant institutions were established under the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 (with tribal land-grants added in 1994) to broaden access to higher education in agriculture, science, engineering, and the practical professions. Their federal research and extension mission is administered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA), and they are represented by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). This dataset tracks 122 of them in the United States.
- What are the 1890 land-grant universities?
- The 1890 land-grant universities are the 19 historically Black colleges established under the second Morrill Act of 1890. With the 1862 land-grants and the 1994 tribal land-grants, they form the U.S. land-grant system, administered through USDA NIFA and represented by APLU. This dataset tracks 122 land-grant institutions in all.
- What are the largest Land-grant Institutions in the U.S.?
- By total enrollment, the largest are TAUS, OSUC, UIU, Purdue University-Main Campus, and UMC.
- What is the typical graduation rate and net price for these institutions?
- The median graduation rate among institutions that report one is 55%, and the median average net price is $13,975. Figures come from IPEDS and College Scorecard.
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