This is a list of land-grant colleges and universities in the United States and its associated territories.
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.
Of the 106 land-grant institutions, all but two (the Community College of Micronesia and Northern Marianas College) are members of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (formerly the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges).
Note: Historically black colleges or universities on this list are listed in italics.
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Native American
The 31 tribal colleges of 1994 are represented as a system by the single membership of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC).
The AIHEC has its headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia for the benefits of ready access to the federal government in Washington, D.C. None of its member schools are located in Virginia. They are located from Michigan westward to Arizona, California and Alaska.
By state
Alabama
- Alabama A&M University
- Auburn University (designated as a land-grant college in 1872 under the name Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama)
- Tuskegee University (private)
Though Alabama A&M is Alabama's official 1890 Morrill Act institution, the mission and unique history of Tuskegee are so similar to those of the 1890 institutions that it functions as a de facto land-grant university and is almost universally regarded as one of them. Tuskegee is a land-grant member of APLU, as are Alabama A&M and Auburn. However, only Alabama A&M and Auburn formally participate in the now-combined Alabama Cooperative Extension System, with Tuskegee listed as a "cooperating partner" in ACES. Tuskegee has also received Smith-Lever Act funds since 1972 to operate its own Cooperative Extension program. Tuskegee is also explicitly granted the same status as the 1890 land-grant institutions in a number of Federal laws.
Alaska
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
Arizona
- Diné College
- Tohono O'odham Community College, Sells
- University of Arizona, Tucson
Arkansas
- University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) (designated in 1871; opened in 1872)
- University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (formerly Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal)
California
- University of California (designated in 1866; University of California, Berkeley opened in 1868)
Colorado
- Colorado State University
Connecticut
- University of Connecticut
Originally, in 1863, the Sheffield Scientific School, part of Yale University, was designated as the state's land-grant college.
Delaware
- Delaware State University (original name was State College for Colored Students)
- University of Delaware (designated on March 14, 1867; reopened in 1870)
On September 11, 1862, Iowa became the first state in the nation to accept the provisions of the Morrill Act.
Kansas
- Haskell Indian Nations University
- Kansas State University (designated on February 16, 1863 but was not opened until September 2, 1863)
Kentucky
- Kentucky State University (designated in the Land Grant Act of 1890)
- University of Kentucky (designated in February 1865) (private)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michigan
- Michigan State University (designated on March 18, 1863)
Founded in 1855 by the State of Michigan, and known as the "Agricultural College of the State of Michigan" with its own state grants of land, the Michigan State model provided a precedent for the federal Morrill Act of 1862. In 1955, Michigan State University and Pennsylvania State University were included on a US postage stamp commemorating MSU and PSU as the "First of the Land Grant Colleges."
Minnesota
- Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College
- Leech Lake Tribal College
- Red Lake Nation College (designated a 1994 Land Grant College in the 2008 Farm Bill)
- University of Minnesota
- White Earth Tribal and Community College
The 1862 land grant was originally provided in 1865 to a fledgling state agricultural college in Glencoe, Minnesota, but was re-appropriated to the University of Minnesota by an act of the Legislature on February 18, 1868.
Mississippi
- Alcorn State University
- Mississippi State University
The State of Mississippi granted Alcorn three-fifths of the proceeds earned from the sale of thirty thousand acres of land scrip for agricultural colleges. From its beginning, it was a land grant college, and the money from the sale of the land scrip of the Morrill Act was used solely for the agricultural and mechanical components of this college.
Missouri
- Lincoln University
- University of Missouri (designated in 1870)
Founded in 1866 as the Lincoln Institute by members of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantry, under the Morrill Act of 1890, Lincoln was designated by Missouri as a land-grant university for black students. It integrated in 1956.
Montana
- Montana State University (Bozeman), so designated upon its founding in 1893 as the Agricultural College of the State of Montana
Nebraska
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Nevada
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- University of Nevada, Reno
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is technically considered a land-grant university according to the attorney-general of Nevada, but has received minuscule land-grant benefits as compared to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), and does not have an agricultural program. However, former Governor Brian Sandoval, a UNR graduate and the current president of UNR, opposes that interpretation and views UNR as the sole land grant institution in the state.
New Hampshire
- University of New Hampshire
New Jersey
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (designated on April 4, 1864)
North Carolina
- North Carolina A&T State University (founded in 1891 as The Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race)
- North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University (NCSU) was founded after citizens criticized the misuse of federal land-grant resources by the University of North Carolina (UNC).
North Dakota
- North Dakota State University
- Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (designated in 1994 with 31 other tribal colleges)
Ohio
- Central State University
- Ohio State University
Central State University was given status as an 1890 land-grant institution in 2014. Unlike the other states with historically black land-grant colleges, Ohio did not segregate its public universities, and African-American students have been admitted to Ohio State University since 1889.
Oklahoma
- Langston University
- Oklahoma State University
Founded in 1897 as the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University, Langston University was created as a result of the second Morrill Act in 1890.
Oregon
- Oregon State University (designated October 27, 1868)
Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania State University (designated in April 1863)
South Carolina
- Clemson University
- South Carolina State University
Founded in 1896 as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina, South Carolina State University still has the 1890 land-grant legacy of service to the citizenry of the state.
South Dakota
- South Dakota State University
Tennessee
- Tennessee State University
- University of Tennessee
TSU is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. It was founded in 1909 as the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School and became the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal College two years later.
Texas
- Prairie View A&M University
- Texas A&M University
Founded in 1876, Prairie View is the second oldest state-sponsored institution of higher education in Texas (after Texas A&M University). Consistent with terms of the federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, which provided public lands for the establishment of colleges, the State of Texas authorized an "Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Benefit of Colored Youth" as part of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) System.
Utah
- Utah State University
Vermont
- University of Vermont
Virginia
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
- Virginia State University
Virginia State University was founded in 1882 as the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. In 1902, the legislature revised the school's charter and renamed it the "Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute". In 1923, this college was renamed "Virginia State College for Negroes". It was designated one of Virginia's land grant colleges in response to the Amendments to the Morrill Act in 1890, which required that the states either open their land-grant colleges to all races, or else establish separate land-grant schools for African-Americans.
Washington
- Washington State University
West Virginia
- West Virginia State University (established as the West Virginia Colored Institute in 1891)
- West Virginia University (designated on February 7, 1867)
Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (designated on April 12, 1866)