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This is a list of land-grant colleges and universities in the United States of America and its associated territories. [1]Land-grant institutions are often categorized as 1862, 1890, and 1994 institutions, based on the date of the legislation that designated most of them with land-grant status.
Logo for the centennial of land-grant universities. A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [1] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [2]
Morrill Land-Grant Acts; Other short titles: Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862: Long title: An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.
Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas was founded as one of the first institutions established under the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Each state used federal funding from the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Acts of 1862 and 1890 to set up "land grant colleges" that specialized in agriculture and engineering.
Pages in category "Universities and colleges established in 1862" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Pages in category "Land-grant universities and colleges" The following 87 pages are in this category, out of 87 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Amended the Morrill Act of 1862 to increase federal funding for land-grant universities. Pub. L. 51–841: 1914 Smith–Lever Act of 1914: Created a cooperative extension service through land-grant universities. Pub. L. 63–95: 1917 Smith–Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917: Amended the Smith–Lever Act to fund vocational ...