Can you name the oldest college or university in each U.S. state, including DC and Puerto Rico? by CLP

Can you name the oldest college or university in each U.S. state, including DC and Puerto Rico?

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Quiz uses the earliest of institutional founding or charter dates for each institution. For instituions that have always been colleges/universities, charter date is usually earlier. For institutions that began as other types of institutons, founding date is usually earler.
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State	College/University	Year Founded
Alabama		1830
Alaska		1917
Arizona		1885
Arkansas		1834
California		1851
Colorado		1864
Connecticut		1701
Delaware		1743
District of Columbia		1789
Florida		1851
Georgia		1783
Hawaii		1907
Idaho		1888
Illinois		1828
Indiana		1801
Iowa		1839
Kansas		1858
Kentucky		1780
Louisiana		1825
Maine		1794
Maryland		1696
Massachusetts		1639
Michigan		1817
Minnesota		1851
Mississippi		1826
Missouri		1818

State	College/University	Year Founded
Montana		1878
Nebraska		1865
Nevada		1874
New Hampshire		1769
New Jersey		1746
New Mexico		1859
New York		1754
North Carolina		1772
North Dakota		1883
Ohio		1804
Oklahoma		1851
Oregon		1842
Pennsylvania		1740
Puerto Rico		1903
Rhode Island		1764
South Carolina		1770
South Dakota		1860
Tennessee		1794
Texas		1845
Utah		1850
Vermont		1787
Virginia		1693
Washington		1859
West Virginia		1837
Wisconsin		1846
Wyoming		1886
California	1886
Georgia	1886
Idaho	1886
Maryland	1886
North Carolina	1886
West Virginia	1886
Wisconsin	1886

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Oldest Colleges by State Quiz

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Created Dec 26, 2009 in Miscellaneous
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	CLP:	Nov 30th, 2009 at 14:38 GMT		1 point
	Oldest schools determined by founding date, not chartered date (if the two are different). If something is incorrect let me know here and please provide a soource. Thanks!

	CLP:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 03:35 GMT		1 point
	Disregard this comment, please see note.

	Morbo:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 04:05 GMT		5 points
	It doesn't take "alaska fairbanks". It should.

	jonnyr12:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 04:16 GMT		12 points
	Great idea, good quiz, BUT... it's hard enough, with many of these colleges being so obscure, that many more variations should be accepted. The ones I can think of: "Alaska" (the Fairbanks campus is the main campus), "Nevada" (instead of needing "Nevada Reno", same idea as above), "Ohio" instead of "Ohio U", "Charleston" instead of "College of Charleston", and "Hawaii" instead of "Hawaii Manoa", for the same reasons as Alaska and Nevada. Lots of people will guess these and assume they are wrong and start futilely guessing Case Western Reserve or the Citadel or some damn place.

	JeffB:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:04 GMT		5 points
	Florida State should be acceptable.

	necolep630:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 13:36 GMT		2 points
	ohio, hawaii, alaska, nevada, and puerto rico should be acceptable. also, what is mississippi college? mississippi college for women?

	Craig:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 19:18 GMT		3 points
	No need to accept "DU" for Denver unless you want to give a charity point to people guessing Duke.

	geowiz85:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 19:25 GMT		3 points
	i wrote santa fe and it wasnt accepted, really hope you dont expect us to write college of santa fe. i will also echo the sentiments about ohio, hawaii, alaska, nevada, and puerto rico which are the main campuses for each of these university systems. i am ok w/ college of charleston since there is a charleston southern as well

	jmujeff90:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 19:27 GMT		-1 points
	didnt take alaska fairbaks, hawaii, mississippi, ricks, nevada reno, and some how "du" (was trying to type duke) got me denver. lots of work needed on this quiz to make it even half decent. Fail!

	dist0rti0n:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 00:13 GMT		1 point
	check your spelling on "university of delaware"

	scrillas:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 02:41 GMT		1 point
	just a heads up... university of puerto rico is actually universidad de puerto rico so you should accept that answer.

	CLP:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 03:19 GMT		1 point
	Thanks for the sggestions... will make those changes.

	CLP:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 03:37 GMT		1 point
	Here are the changes that I've made: -Now accepts alaska fairbanks (did not change to "alaska" since the designation belongs to that campus, and it is commonly referred to as such) -"hawaii" now acceptable (as that campus is commonly referred to as Hawaii in athletics) -removed "du" from denver -"nevada" now acceptable (as that campus is commonly referred to as Nevada in athletics) -"puerto rico" and "universidad de puerto rico" now acceptable -"santa fe" now acceptable Changes not made & other comments: -keeping alaska fairbanks (reasoning above) -no change to Ohio U - keeping as is, since someone thinking Ohio State would get the answer right automatically. Ohio U maintains that differentiaton. -Kept "College of Charleston" for the reason geowiz85 stated, and because that's the institution's common name -Univ. of Delaware spelling is fine -jmujeff, I'm not sure which quiz you were taking, but ricks and nevada reno were acceptable answers before I made these changes -Florida State has always been acceptable -Mississippi College is a real place, you can look it up. I am keeping it the same for the same reason I decided not to change Ohio. Quizzes aren't supposed to be easy, right?! Thanks again for the suggestions.

	elnok:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 13:48 GMT		2 points
	"Nevada" didn't work, Ohio is what the school's designation is. I understand keeping Mississippi COllege (as opposed to Ole Miss) and College of Charleston (because that's what people call it, not just "charleston") but Ohio is Ohio.

	lalalala:	Jan 1st, 2010 at 05:10 GMT		1 point
	Please accept UPenn for University of Pennsylvania.

	gartland:	Feb 23rd, 2010 at 10:16 GMT		3 points
	you should accept c of c for college of charleston, fairbanks for alaska fairbanks, and as much as it sucks you have to accept ohio.. thats what the school is called or at least accpet OU.

	chriskotx:	Jul 23rd, 2010 at 19:46 GMT		1 point
	Wickipedia backs up the claim that Southwestern U. in Georgetown,Texas was founded in 1840... 5 years before Baylor.

	TXHSSportswriter:	Nov 14th, 2012 at 00:43 GMT		1 point
	I must of misspelled Castleton State. I knew that one even as a Texan. Enjoyed the quiz, especially as an NAIA (and formerly NCAA Division III) sports information director. And to the person that asked Mississippi College is a Baptist school in Clinton, Miss., that plays D-III athletics and may go back to D-II very soon.

	okonheim:	Mar 7th, 2013 at 00:13 GMT		2 points
	I said Ohio and Castleton but I needed to put university and state. Maybe you should put something like that in the instructions