| This has been bugging me since I'm a social studies teacher in North Carolina who has taught that UNC is the oldest public university in the country, because that's what the school says in its literature. So, after researching it, the deal is this, UGA was chartered before UNC, however they did not admit any students until 1801, five years after UNC graduated its first class. So it depends on how you interpret "first". For that matter, William and Mary is now public so it could argue the point as well. |
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