Okay, I want you guys to read this quote carefully, and then I will explain the project. Btw, this was taken from the ACC board .

(04-16-2023 12:19 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  

(01-27-2023 03:24 PM)SouthernConfBoy Wrote:  Most of the dates today's major university use as their founding are red herrings. Trinity for example was not really Duke. Some were chartered and not opened for years. If you go by the first award of a graduate degree. If you go by the creation/award of the first graduate degree the old ACC goes something as follows:

UVa 1825 (Born grown so to speak with full diversity of offerings)
UNC 1845 (Law School formed)
VT 1872 (VT was actually born more developed than most everyone else due to the Land Grant)
Duke 1892 (This is the year Duke and Carr bought and moved Trinity to Durham)
WF 1894 (This is the year they added a Law School to the seminary)
NC State 1894 (Like VT, NC State was born more advanced)
GT 1899 (Start of the Textile Engineering program)
Clemson 1924 (First grad degree award)

The Va General Assembly took the women away from VT in 1944 and sent them to Radford, I guess so the could be nearer to the Ammo Manufacturing?

Almost all of the schools above have fought various political battles to retain certain programs or hold off outside interference on the way to becoming modern.

Louisville has the most interesting path. A med school by 1846, but then 120 years of political wrangling that almost closed them by 1970. Pitt was chartered in the 18th Century but did not become Western PA U until 1819. BC existed as seminary before moving to the current site in 1909. Miami's law schools started up in 1928.

Ok, SouthernConfboy, you got me interested, and I can definitely see where you are coming from. Even though both UGA and UNC were both founded as post Revolutionary War schools, looking at grad schools, UNC @1845 is interesting. UGA, if you go by your definition, first awarded a graduate degree in 1870, (a Master of Arts degree) well after UVa and UNC, but before Virginia Tech. How would you do the rest of the SEC???

Now, this is the project. Find out what year your school(s) first issued graduate degrees, or what year they started a grad school of any kind, then post the year and what type of graduate degree please.

I will start with UGA (Georgia):

UGA- 1870 (Master of Arts)

(04-17-2023 09:55 PM)DawgNBama Wrote:  Okay, I want you guys to read this quote carefully, and then I will explain the project. Btw, this was taken from the ACC board .

(04-16-2023 12:19 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  

(01-27-2023 03:24 PM)SouthernConfBoy Wrote:  Most of the dates today's major university use as their founding are red herrings. Trinity for example was not really Duke. Some were chartered and not opened for years. If you go by the first award of a graduate degree. If you go by the creation/award of the first graduate degree the old ACC goes something as follows:

UVa 1825 (Born grown so to speak with full diversity of offerings)
UNC 1845 (Law School formed)
VT 1872 (VT was actually born more developed than most everyone else due to the Land Grant)
Duke 1892 (This is the year Duke and Carr bought and moved Trinity to Durham)
WF 1894 (This is the year they added a Law School to the seminary)
NC State 1894 (Like VT, NC State was born more advanced)
GT 1899 (Start of the Textile Engineering program)
Clemson 1924 (First grad degree award)

The Va General Assembly took the women away from VT in 1944 and sent them to Radford, I guess so the could be nearer to the Ammo Manufacturing?

Almost all of the schools above have fought various political battles to retain certain programs or hold off outside interference on the way to becoming modern.

Louisville has the most interesting path. A med school by 1846, but then 120 years of political wrangling that almost closed them by 1970. Pitt was chartered in the 18th Century but did not become Western PA U until 1819. BC existed as seminary before moving to the current site in 1909. Miami's law schools started up in 1928.

Ok, SouthernConfboy, you got me interested, and I can definitely see where you are coming from. Even though both UGA and UNC were both founded as post Revolutionary War schools, looking at grad schools, UNC @1845 is interesting. UGA, if you go by your definition, first awarded a graduate degree in 1870, (a Master of Arts degree) well after UVa and UNC, but before Virginia Tech. How would you do the rest of the SEC???

Now, this is the project. Find out what year your school(s) first issued graduate degrees, or what year they started a grad school of any kind, then post the year and what type of graduate degree please.

I will start with UGA (Georgia):

UGA- 1870 (Master of Arts)

UF - 1906 (first two Master of Arts degrees in English, first Master of Science degree in Entomology in 1908)