OT - Globetrotter insults entire state

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Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Go live in a state that's bigger than, um, Houston! One big enough to NEED more than one state school. Heck, OU and OSU (both the Oklahoma and Oregon versions of this pair) and KSU/KU are probably large enough to fit Connecticut between them!

Not to mention Texas, with UT, TA&M, Texas Tech all "full-sized" public state schools (not to mention about 10 others without Texas in the name and 5 more private schools, all as big as UConn). (Heck, I bet there are subsidiary schools of both UT and TA&M with as much enrollment as Connecticut.!)

There are seventeen state supported schools in the University of North Carolina system.

Appalachian State University
East Carolina University
Elizabeth City State University
Fayetteville State University
North Carolina A & T University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina School of Math & Science
North Carolina State University
University of North Carolina - Asheville
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
University of North Carolina - Greensboro
University of North Carolina - Pembroke
University of North Carolina - Wilmington
North Carolina School of the Arts
Western Carolina University
Winston-Salem State University

UNC-CH is commonly referred to as the University of North Carolina because it is the oldest state supported university in the state, as well as the nation.

There are also 36 privates four-year institutions, many church affiliated. Among them:

Davidson College
Duke University
Campbell University
Wake Forest University