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| University of Alabama |
| Tuscaloosa, Ala. - Founded 1831 |
For three consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has named The University of Alabama one
of the "top" 50 public universities in the nation.
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| University of Arkansas |
| Fayetteville, Ark. - Founded 1871 |
Consistently, Arkansas students have won prestigious national and international scholarships and fellowships.
Federally and corporately funded research has grown dramatically, with Arkansas' faculty winning major research grants from
the nation's most competitive programs.
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| Auburn University |
| Auburn, Ala. - Founded 1856 |
A 2001 study determined Auburn had a nearly $4 billion economic impact on the state of Alabama, including
a $1.5 billion impact on the economy and $2.4 billion impact in "human capital."
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| University of Florida |
| Gainesville, Fla. - Founded 1853 |
The University of Florida is one of only two schools that has ranked among the nation's "top" 10 athletic
programs in each of the last 20 years.
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| University of Georgia |
| Athens, Ga. - Founded 1785 |
The Wall Street Journal includes UGA among 16 "Hot Schools" that are drawing increased attention from
students and families because of cost, safety and academic quality advantages.
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| University of Kentucky |
| Lexington, Ky. - Founded 1865 |
University of Kentucky academic programs boast 80 national rankings for quality education. UK is one
of only a few universities in the country with a teaching and research campus and a medical center all in one central location.
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| Louisiana State University |
| Baton Rouge, La. - Founded 1860 |
Because of its designation as a Research I University - the "top" category of the Carnegie Foundation's
ranking of research institutions - LSU ranks in the "top" two percent of the nation's colleges and universities.
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| University of Mississippi |
| Oxford, Miss. - Founded 1848 |
Since 1998, when the university produced its 24th Rhodes Scholar, Ole Miss has produced a Marshall
Scholar, four truman Scholars, four Fulbright Scholars, and five Goldwater Scholars.
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| Mississippi State University |
| Starkville, Miss. - Founded 1878 |
Mississippi State is home to one of the "top" 20 supercomputing sites among American universities,
according to the "top" 500 Supercomputer Sites semiannual survey
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| University of South Carolina |
| Columbia, S.C. - Founded 1801 |
The University of South Carolina's undergraduate international-business program is the "top"-ranked
program in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2004 "America's Best Colleges Guide."
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| Vanderbilt University |
| Nashville, Tenn. - Founded 1873 |
In two decades, Vanderbilt has put more than $762 million toward renovation and construction on its
campus, including the addition of state-of-the-art buildings for psychology, chemistry, and music, among others.
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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
School Website | Athletic Website
Clemson University is nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge
Mountains near the Georgia border, and the tiger paws painted on the roads make the return to I-85 easier. The school is built
around Fort Hill, the plantation home of John C. Calhoun, Vice President to Andrew Jackson. His son-in-law, Thomas Greene
Clemson, left the land to be used as an agricultural school, and in 1893 Clemson opened its doors as a land-grant school,
thanks to the efforts of Ben Tillman.
Charter member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1894, charter member of the Southern Conference
in 1921, charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY
School Website | Athletic Website
Duke University was founded in 1924 by tobacco magnate James B.
Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. Originally the school was called Trinity College, a Methodist institution,
started in 1859. In 1892, Trinity moved to west Durham where the east campus with its Georgian architecture now stands. Nearby
are Sarah P. Duke gardens, and further west the Gothic spires of Duke chapel overlook the west campus.
Joined the Southern Conference in December, 1928; charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953.
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
School Website | Athletic Website
Florida State University is one of 10 universities of the State
University System of Florida. It was established as the Seminary West of the Suwannee by an act of the Florida Legislature
in 1851, and first offered instruction at the post-secondary level in 1857. Its Tallahassee campus has been the site of an
institution of higher education longer than any other site in the state. In 1905, the Buckman Act reorganized higher education
in the state and designated the Tallahassee school as the Florida Female College. In 1909, it was renamed Florida State College
for Women. In 1947, the school returned to a co-educational status, and the name was changed to Florida State University.
Charter member of the Dixie Conference in 1948, joined the Metro Conference in July, 1976; joined the Atlantic Coast Conference
September 15, 1990.
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GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
School Website | Athletic Website
Next to I-85 in downtown Atlanta stands Georgia Institute of Technology,
founded in 1885. Its first students came to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering, the only one offered at the time. Tech’s
strength is not only the red clay of Georgia, but a restored gold and white 1930 model A Ford Cabriolet, the official mascot.
The old Ford was first used in 1961, but a Ramblin’ Wreck had been around for over three decades. The Ramblin’
Wreck fight song appeared almost as soon as the school opened, and it is not only American boys that grow up singing its rollicking
tune, for Richard Nixon and Nikita Krushchev sang it when they met in Moscow in 1959.
Charter member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1894, charter member of Southern Conference in 1921,
charter member of the Southeastern Conference in 1932, joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in July, 1979.
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
School Website | Athletic Website
The University of Maryland opened in 1856 as an agricultural school
nine miles north of Washington, D.C., on land belonging to Charles Calvert, a descendant of Lord Baltimore, the state’s
founding father. The school colors are the same as the state flag: black and gold for George Calvert (Lord Baltimore) and
red and white for his mother, Alice Crossland. Maryland has been called the school that Curley Byrd built, for he was its
quarterback, then football coach, athletic director, assistant to the president, vice-president, and finally its president.
Byrd also designed the football stadium and the campus layout, and suggested the nickname Terrapin, a local turtle known for
its bite, when students wanted to replace the nickname Old Liners with a new one for the school.
Charter member of the Southern Conference in 1921, charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
School Website | Athletic Website
The University of Miami was chartered in 1925 by a group of citizens
who felt an institution of higher learning was needed for the development of their young and growing community. The South
Florida land boom was at its peak, optimism flowed, and expectations were high. By the fall of 1926, when the first class
of 560 students enrolled at the University, the land boom had collapsed, and hopes for a speedy recovery were dashed by a
major hurricane. In the next 15 years the University barely kept afloat. The collapse in South Florida was a mere prelude
to a national economic depression. Such were the beginnings of what has since become one of the nation's most distinguished
private universities.
Charter member of the Big East Football Conference in 1991; joined the ACC in July, 2004.
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
School Website | Athletic Website
The University of North Carolina, located in Chapel Hill, has
been called “the perfect college town,” making its tree-lined streets and balmy atmosphere what a college should
look and feel like. Its inception in 1795 makes it one of the oldest schools in the nation, and its nickname of Tar Heels
stems from the tar pitch and turpentine that were the state’s principal industry. The nickname is as old as the school,
for it was born during the Revolutionary War when tar was dumped into the streams to impede the advance of British forces.
Charter member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1894, charter member of the Southern Conference
in 1921, charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953.
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NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
School Website | Athletic Website
North Carolina State University is located in the state capital
of Raleigh. It opened in 1889 as a land-grant agricultural and mechanical school and was known as A&M or Aggies or Farmers
for over a quarter-century. The school’s colors of pink and blue were gone by 1895, brown and white were tried for a
year, but the students finally chose red and white to represent the school. An unhappy fan in 1922 said State football players
behaved like a pack of wolves, and the term that was coined in derision became a badge of honor.
Charter member of the Southern Conference in 1921, charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
School Website | Athletic Website
The University of Virginia was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson
and is one of three things on his tombstone for which he wanted to be remembered. James Madison and James Monroe were on the
board of governors in the early years. The Rotunda, a half-scale version of the Pantheon which faces the Lawn, is the focal
point of the grounds as the campus is called. Jefferson wanted his school to educate leaders in practical affairs and public
service, not just to train teachers.
Charter member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1894, charter member of the Southern Conference
in 1921, resigned from Southern Conference in December 1936, joined the ACC in December, 1953.
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VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY
School Website | Athletic Website
Virginia Tech was established in 1872 as an all-male military
school dedicated to the original land-grant mission of teaching agriculture and engineering. The University has grown from
a small college of 132 students into the largest institution of higher education in the state during its 132-year history.
Located in Southwest Virginia on a plateau between the Blue Ridge and Alleghany Mountains, the campus consists of 334 buildings
and 20 miles of sidewalks over 2,600 acres. The official school colors - Chicago maroon and burnt orange - were selected in
1896 because they made a “unique combination” not worn elsewhere at the time.
Charter member of the Southern Conference in 1921; withdrew from the Southern Conference in June, 1965; became a charter
member of the Big East Football Conference in Feb. 5, 1991; joined the ACC in July, 2004.
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WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
School Website | Athletic Website
Wake Forest University was started on Calvin Jones’ plantation
amid the stately pine forest of Wake County in 1834. The Baptist seminary is still there, but the school was moved to Winston-Salem
in 1956 on a site donated by Charles H. and Mary Reynolds Babcock. President Harry S. Truman attended the ground-breaking
ceremonies that brought a picturesque campus of Georgian architecture and painted roofs. Wake’s colors have been black
and gold since 1895, thanks to a badge designed by student John Heck who died before he graduated.
Joined the Southern Conference in February, 1936, charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953.
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