I came up with this list for a post on the football board, but figured that since I went through all the effort to type it up, here it is.
The Morrill Act was passed in 1862 (in the midst of the Civil War) to promote agriculture by establishing land grant colleges to that purpose. It allowed for federal dollars to universities if they established them with those guidelines. Although it was not required that the schools be named Agricultural and Mechanical, that was the model pattern that was adopted by most. A lot of states took advantage of this, and for most Southern states, this was their first state university, since they had been hostile to public universities before the war (many of the oldest southern universities, like Duke or Baylor, which were established before the war, were private).
Original Name (Current Name)
A&M College of Alabama (Auburn University)
California Agricultural, Mining and Mechanical Arts College (University of California-Berkeley)
Colorado A&M (Colorado State)
Florida Agricultural College (University of Florida)
Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm (Iowa State)
Kansas State Agricultural College ( Kansas State)
Kentucky A&M (University of Kentucky
Louisiana State University A&M (LSU)
Maine A&M (University of Maine)
Agricultural College of Michigan (Michigan State)
New Mexico A&M (New Mexico State)
North Carolina A&M (North Carolina State)
Ohio A&M (Ohio State)
Oklahoma A&M (Oklahoma State)
Farmers High School of Pennsylvania (Penn State)
Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina (Clemson University)
Virginia A&M (Virginia Tech)
Washington Agricultural College (Washington State)
Agricultural College of West Virginia (University of West Virginia)
The Morrill Act was passed in 1862 (in the midst of the Civil War) to promote agriculture by establishing land grant colleges to that purpose. It allowed for federal dollars to universities if they established them with those guidelines. Although it was not required that the schools be named Agricultural and Mechanical, that was the model pattern that was adopted by most. A lot of states took advantage of this, and for most Southern states, this was their first state university, since they had been hostile to public universities before the war (many of the oldest southern universities, like Duke or Baylor, which were established before the war, were private).
Original Name (Current Name)
A&M College of Alabama (Auburn University)
California Agricultural, Mining and Mechanical Arts College (University of California-Berkeley)
Colorado A&M (Colorado State)
Florida Agricultural College (University of Florida)
Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm (Iowa State)
Kansas State Agricultural College ( Kansas State)
Kentucky A&M (University of Kentucky
Louisiana State University A&M (LSU)
Maine A&M (University of Maine)
Agricultural College of Michigan (Michigan State)
New Mexico A&M (New Mexico State)
North Carolina A&M (North Carolina State)
Ohio A&M (Ohio State)
Oklahoma A&M (Oklahoma State)
Farmers High School of Pennsylvania (Penn State)
Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina (Clemson University)
Virginia A&M (Virginia Tech)
Washington Agricultural College (Washington State)
Agricultural College of West Virginia (University of West Virginia)
