(10-17-2020 10:03 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(10-15-2020 09:05 PM)ken d Wrote:  Maybe the State of New Jersey should change its name to Rutgers.

Might work better for Rutgers. People in the Northeast are snooty. They look down on state universities. Hence Rutgers is a better brand name for them.

No need to generalize or stereotype...there are many large, successful public universities in the northeast: Penn State, Rutgers, UConn, UMass, SUNY, URI, etc.
The northeast happens to also have a disproportionate share of private (including academically elite) universities. That’s probably more a vestige of the population concentration, relative wealth and being founded earlier than in other geographies.