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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
No. Rice was founded in 1912. Duke became Duke in 1924 when a small Methodist school named Trinity College took James B. Duke's money in return for changing its name and transforming itself.
The creation of Duke U. virtually from nothing in 1930:
The effort shown required the purchasing of a stone quarry, the building of a rail line and the hiring of an army of Italian stone masons who were brought to the US and the campus and set to work--all during the Depression.
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Thanks for clarifying that! Yeah, I originally wrote down Duke and Rice (since I thought I remembered Duke founded in the 20's) but then I took a cursory look at Wikipedia and it listed a much older date, so I took it out without looking more into it. But yeah, I guess the "modern" Duke has only been around for 100 years.
I can't really think of any notable private schools that were founded much more recently than that, other than maybe Pepperdine (1937). There of course notable public schools (UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, UIC, FIU) but I guess the robber barons no longer really create universities, so maybe Florida and Texas will be out of luck. There are probably some notable private medical schools and things like that from the last 80 years but I can't think of a general university in the US.
I guess there's Liberty University, but that's notable for the wrong reasons.