<p>SUNY - Syracuse - from US news’ best graduate schools site. Oy.</p>
<p>[SUNY–Syracuse</a> - Best Medical Schools - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/items/04075]SUNY--Syracuse”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/items/04075)</p>
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<p>SUNY Upstate is located in Syracuse <em>i think</em> so that might be the confusion</p>
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<p>MIT, which is also on the list you cited, is the one other “land grant” university that, like Cornell, became fully private.</p>
<p>sk8rmom I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. No one refers to SUNY ESF as SUNY Syracuse. No one at all. Like greenwitch pointed out the medical school located in Syracuse is known as SUNY. My point simply was that it’s a big misconception, especially here in NYC that SU is a state school and it’s simply not. Not sure why you refuted that. You being an SU grad doesn’t prove to us anything and the point about ESF students having the ability to get into SU is irrelevant. (Not sure why you brought that up)</p>
<p>@Colm, Temple is also on the land grant list. Strange, isn’t it?</p>
<p>^ Temple is a public university in Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>MIT and Cornell are the only fully private universities that were, at least in part, land grant institutions at their inception. They are unique in this respect.</p>
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<p>It’s amazing how many people don’t know we’re a public university.</p>
<p>There are two different USCs (that are on different coasts)</p>
<p>The University of Pennsylvania is a private school, and entirely different from Penn State (although not a CC problem, people from my HS use the names interchangeably 
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<p>Syracuse doesn’t have a med school. It sold its med school to SUNY in 1950 for $1.</p>
<p>Pitt, Penn State, Temple and Lincoln are privately governed, state-subsidized institutions. They are neither fully public or private. Their assets remain in the hands of their private foundations and less than 10% of their budgets coming from the state (so technically, they may be more like private schools). In-state tuition is subsidized so they are almost always classified in the “public” category. Pitt and Temple were private for their entire histories until the mid-1960s.</p>
<p>Cornell University is also a public-private hybrid. Three of its seven undergrad schools, as well as its Vet school, are part of SUNY, receive state funding, and in-state students receive discounted tuition. The other four other undergrad colleges/schools, including Arts & Sciences, are fully private.</p>
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<p>This statement can be misleading. While it is true that Cornell’s contract colleges have been legally deemed a “public-private hybrid,” it is nevertheless the private aspect which is dominant. Ezra Cornell fought long and hard to retain this ultimate control from the very beginning in the 1860’s.</p>
<p>“Unlike the SUNY state operated colleges Cornell, rather than SUNY, retained responsibility for the administration of these contract colleges. … Cornell is a private university with a public (land grant) mission.”</p>
<p>The above quote is abstracted from a section of the Cornell University
2001-02 Financial Plan entitled ‘A Land Grant University.’</p>