re: 50 states and only 3 of them have an A&M

Nah, not that dumbass. It was the university's centennial year. You don't go changing the name after 100 years, says me.

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figures

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Not really, it is actually a pretty interesting story.

UK is one of the few schools that started out private, became an all male A&M, became the state college, admitted women, then became the public flagship university.

Not many schools in the country made that trip

Also interesting, Brown was an A&M for awhile before passing it on to another school in the state. Something to tell your toffee nosed Brown friends at a cocktail party. Always good for a laugh!

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I thought UK was an off shoot of Dracula university

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It is, Transylvania was a top medical school in the USA till the church folk ran it into the ground with poor money management. FWIW, Constantine Rafinesque was a way cooler story than Dracula LINK


In 1780, an act by the Commonwealth of Virginia Legislature set aside 8,000 acres of confiscated British lands in the County of Kentucky for "a public school or seminary of learning." A charter for Transylvania College was granted by the Legislature three years later, the first educational institution west of the Alleghenies. At the height of it influence, during the first quarter of the 19th century, Transylvania rivaled both Harvard and Yale. It was one of the leading universities in the country in terms of enrollment, faculty, and resources for medical education under the presidency of Horace Holley. Many distinguished men studied at Transylvania including Jefferson Davis, Albert Sidney Johnston, John Hunt Morgan, Stephen Austin, Cassius Clay, John Cabell Breckinridge, and many others.