(04-18-2018 05:34 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(04-18-2018 04:20 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  So does a degree from each of the campuses mean the same as a degree from the flagship? Does the flagship get a lot of special privileges the other campuses don't? For schools in a state's 'system' and schools with multiple campuses, how does the governing / financing of athletics work? Could someone who went to IUPUI, for example, say they went to Indiana University? (After all, IUPUI is part of the Indiana University system and they are all considered Hoosiers) So confusing.

The part that you seem to be confused about isn’t really that confusing. A system can contain multiple schools in the same way that a corporation can have multiple subsidiaries. Attending and getting a degree from IUPUI is NOT the same as attending and getting a degree from Indiana University - Bloomington. They are separate units with separate degrees with separate admissions requirements with separate athletic departments with separate management despite the fact that they are administratively part of the same public university system. It would be like me taking a job as an account manager at Walt Disney World in Orlando and then claiming on my resume that I have the same position at The Walt Disney Company headquarters based out of Burbank - that would be a gross misrepresentation and patently false. Those are totally different corporate units despite having the same parent company. Same thing with IUPUI compared to IU, or UC-Berkeley compared to UCLA compared to other University of California schools, etc.

Now, how those university systems are managed or funded are completely different from state-to-state. There’s no real consistency among the states, so *that* technical aspect could be somewhat confusing. Still, it should be pretty clear that getting a degree from UNC-Greensboro has absolutely no academic relation to getting a degree from UNC-Chapel Hill - they are completely different schools from an academic perspective (and in turn, a sports perspective).

In the IUPUI example given, IUPUI degrees only state Indiana U or Purdue U depending on which what the specific IUPUI college is affiliated with. Same goes for IPFW, soon to be split into PUFW and IUFW. A transcript is needed to ascertain the degree origins, as the diploma is ambiguous.

IUPUI degrees in health fields are often better, as IUPUI isn’t a slouch, but IPFW has issues.