Oh, yeah. The Prince of Monaco. Most people don’t know this, but he’s actually a household name globally, identifiable to most people around the world on a first-name basis. Google “Prince Albert” to learn more.
Anyway, Illinois is definitely Top 50 by THE and #52 by Shanghai AWRU.
It has impact.
The fictitious HAL computer wasn’t said to be located in Urbana for nothing!
To be clear, I’m not here to dunk on UIUC. They’re a fantastic school. So are many universities that are not on that list – Georgia Tech and Rice are two more that immediately come to mind. But for the most part, elite universities – wherever you draw the brightline – are in cities.
Land Grant is a stupid designation.
That’s a Federal Program to encourage higher education, post Civil War, but its not the end all/be all in building a world renouned University .
Yes! It is a head start but we can blow past many “Land Grant” Universities.
We are quickly approaching year 100. Let’s see how much we grow from year 101-200 as compared to years 1-100.
Of course, i mean that symbolically since none of us will be here…unless one of you is working on a time machine or the fountain of youth formula.
Then this city thing would definitely benefit the CWRUs of the world, right?
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In most states the land grant is either the flagship or co-flagship public.
It is what it is.
Yes…and we are already stronger…more powerful…more important than 50% of the other states #1 or co-flagship…most land grant!
The University of Maine…or Wyoming…or even Mississippi may be a state flagship BUT being the third most important public school system IN THE STATE of TEXAS comes with the higher ceiling.
Give it time!
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Let’s put it this way, because I don’t want this to come off as a grand pronouncement that urban schools are inevitably destined for success: CWRU is better-positioned in Cleveland than it would be if it were in Youngstown or Wooster. There are also a billion other competing demographic trends that will affect how schools perform long-term. I think they should be worried about population shifts away from the Rust Belt and the fact that Cleveland has been shrinking for the last 70 years. If Cleveland were to see a resurgence, that trend would definitely benefit CWRU.
Land Grant schools were strategically placed in new towns in the middle of two major cities to attract students/professors from both cities
Think State College, PA serving Philadelphia and Pittsburgh…or any of tge other new towns with “College” “a variation of Columbus/Columbia " or " Athens” in their name.
Those town names screamed 'Land Grant ’
However, in 2024…as compared to 1924, established schools actually IN the major city can offer advantages IF the quality of education and post college opportunities is superior to the school "out in the country "
Let’s see how we are in 100 years!
That would be something. CoogFans in 2124.
I am sure in 100 years, students will not be studying what current students are studying.
AI and whatever else comes about in100 years will change everything.
There may be a return to the arts and classics because technology will eliminate or change everything that is being done now.
Probably under water in the expanded Gulf of Mexico.
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It depends. In a lot of ways, University education isn’t much different than it was 100 years ago. Fields like Mechanical Engineering and Statistics and most business fields will likely look the same at least in a broad sense, but there are a lot of fields that are going to see vast change in the next century in a predictable way. Psychology is going to become a hard science, for example. Computer Science is inevitably going to become a domain with many specialties, and there will likely not be a specific CS major offered. As a rule of thumb, “newer” fields will change faster than “older” ones.
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