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Naming conventions vary by state, nobody would argue for Ohio over OSU

And same with your PSU example. But in most states, it probably is "The University of ..." that is the flagship. With the "States", "Techs", and city name/directional/person name schools being secondary. Obviously not in VA though.
Posted: 06/14/2024 at 02:00 PM ET
(In response to this post by Maroon Baboon)

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Quick reference of school sizes (since it has come up lately)
HokieAl • 06/13/24 10:12 PM ET
Thanks for the list. Do you know of a list of living alumni?**
IB4TECH • 06/15/24 09:09 AM ET
ACC with 8 of the bottom 13.
LonghornHokie • 06/15/24 06:07 AM ET
Good info but at the end of the day
Vippie1 • 06/14/24 05:29 PM ET
Georgia Tech at 48k? Don't think that's correct.**
hokiesrule98 • 06/14/24 03:42 PM ET
It includes undergrad, grad and online grad students from what have read. **
RJHokie • 06/14/24 03:52 PM ET
Heck. Liberty has about a million of those mail order degrees**
HokieR • 06/14/24 09:32 PM ET
USF is 50K
Truthahn • 06/14/24 02:02 PM ET
Here's an interesting youtube video on various factors of universities
DMV Gobbler • 06/14/24 11:37 AM ET
Tony Altimore doesn't look like the same guy on his Twitter (X) photo**
HouClone • 06/14/24 02:52 PM ET
Who determines which school is the "flagship"?
Maroon Baboon • 06/14/24 12:39 PM ET
It's usually the first public university founded
mrcaniac • 06/14/24 07:37 PM ET
William & Mary became bankrupt and then taken over by the state in 1906. **
RJHokie • 06/14/24 07:49 PM ET
UNC is the flagship schools of NC's university system. VA does not have
IB4TECH • 06/14/24 07:22 PM ET
UNC was considered NC's flagship university before the UNC system existed.
tarheelblue • 06/14/24 08:41 PM ET
UPenn is a private school
dayooper • 06/14/24 03:41 PM ET
I thought it just means the main location in a group.
Truthahn • 06/14/24 02:11 PM ET
Naming conventions vary by state, nobody would argue for Ohio over OSU ◄
HokieNoVA • 06/14/24 02:00 PM ET
THE first rule....
mjfhokie • 06/14/24 02:08 PM ET
I don't accept that!
EDGEMAN • 06/14/24 12:42 PM ET
Temple has 39,581. They should be better in football than they are.**
OrlandoHokie • 06/14/24 10:41 AM ET
I like to see alumni data as well, but WELL done**
DMV Gobbler • 06/14/24 08:13 AM ET
Stat clarification
CMU Hokie • 06/14/24 07:48 AM ET
Living alumni is important for several reasons. But can be deceptive.
marcbvtgm • 06/14/24 12:26 PM ET
I've started digging into the alumni numbers and they are very inconsistent
HokieAl • 06/14/24 12:30 PM ET
Yep. Sort of like the numbers schools report to US News & World Report.**
marcbvtgm • 06/14/24 12:36 PM ET
If online is included, wouldn't Liberty be top 10? I think GMU has a bunch
Lakeridgehokie • 06/14/24 11:05 AM ET
Here’s a list of the top 10 from Wiki
I85Hokie • 06/14/24 08:38 AM ET
Hmmm, Rutgers is highlighting some of the questions below
HokieAl • 06/14/24 09:11 AM ET
Interesting point. That would take a lot of digging to separate out**
HokieAl • 06/14/24 08:33 AM ET
This IPEDS website has it all but it has a learning curve attached.
33laszlo99 • 06/14/24 11:13 AM ET
Are all the aTm students on one campus, or does that include multiple...
EDGEMAN • 06/14/24 05:30 AM ET
Looks like it is mostly the main campus
HokieAl • 06/14/24 08:30 AM ET
Wow! That's a city**
EDGEMAN • 06/14/24 08:42 AM ET
This looks like combined UG & Grad. GT has fewer than 20,000 UG.
33laszlo99 • 06/13/24 11:16 PM ET
Georgia Tech counting France and China campuses? Why not Liberty?
mjfhokie • 06/14/24 09:09 AM ET
Great explanation mjf
Captain Hokie • 06/14/24 05:33 PM ET
Yeah the more questions I see, I'm now digging below surface level
HokieAl • 06/14/24 09:13 AM ET
Yeah its combined. GT has ~18K undergrads but ~27K grad students.**
UpstateSCHokie • 06/14/24 06:51 AM ET
Undergrads are much more important than grads wrt to athletics support**
marcbvtgm • 06/14/24 12:37 PM ET
How does Notre Dame do it?
MVIII • 06/13/24 10:47 PM ET
Subway Alumni**
TerryD • 06/14/24 02:30 PM ET
ND's an outlier due to legacy. Helps that it's only 1hr+ from Chicago.**
marcbvtgm • 06/14/24 12:40 PM ET
They have had an amazing number of fans who are fans
Pylons • 06/14/24 09:58 AM ET
Yep, my mother-in-law is a ND fan because she is Catholic.
Truthahn • 06/14/24 02:16 PM ET
Must be a mid-west Catholic thing, I went to Catholic school for K-12
HokieNoVA • 06/14/24 10:40 AM ET
The distribution of Catholic schools is somewhat lopsided.**
33laszlo99 • 06/14/24 12:35 PM ET
Was also big in the northeast. Lots of us NJ Catholics were huge fans
Gadfly • 06/14/24 11:37 AM ET
I'm not catholic, but I was a fan as a kid. They had that Sunday morning
reestuart • 06/14/24 11:59 AM ET
Certainly seemed like a thing growing up in PA**
Pylons • 06/14/24 11:29 AM ET
They had a bunch of black and white movies to grow their fan base...
EDGEMAN • 06/14/24 05:32 AM ET
Exactly
RTFC • 06/14/24 12:20 PM ET
A retired Navy master chief who grew up in NYC...
EDGEMAN • 06/14/24 12:38 PM ET
That's a lot of ACC schools at the bottom. Two more than a year ago.**
wwhokie1 • 06/13/24 10:36 PM ET