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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown
A more interesting topic might be least iconic flagship campuses, towns. Sounds like Purdue and Texas A&M might be in the running.
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west lafayette was the most underwhelming of the nine big 10 university cities/towns i've been to.
but just across the wabash river over in regular lafayette, there is a pretty awesomely classic county courthouse square in the center of town, which is nice.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4190361,...BCUgQBzvVs5owlg07SEBw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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Originally Posted by pj3000
What does this "flagship" university term even mean?
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Most states in the United States provide public university education through one or more university systems, with each system having multiple campuses located throughout the state. The phrase flagship institution or flagship university may be applied to an individual school or campus within each state system. The College Board, for example, defines flagship universities as the best-known institutions in the state, noting that they were generally the first to be established and are frequently the largest and most selective, as well as the most research-intensive public universities.[1][2][3] These schools are often land-grant research universities.[4] According to Robert M. Berdahl, then-chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, the phrase "flagship" came into existence in the 1950s when the Morrill Act schools were joined by newer institutions built in a wave of post-war expansion of state university systems.[5]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship#University