re: Why are university Oregon and Oregon State so close?

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OU and Okie St less than 100 miles apart

Starkville and Oxford less than

Ft Collins close to Boulder

Manhattan close to Lawrence

I could go on, OP is dumb

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Lot of those states had one sort of erudite liberal arts college and one ag school type college. It wasn’t so important to spread them out geographically because each was attracting a different type student and likely in some ways made more sense to have them in somewhat close proximity.

Louisiana had one main school that incorporated both. I guess Tulane (THE [original] University of Louisiana) was sort of the erudite liberal arts state school until it went private when LSU then was made to wear both hats for the state.