Higher Ed

Located in Martin, Tenn., the University of Tennessee at Martin was founded in 1927.

Cornell University is an Ivy League university in Ithaca, N.Y. Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White founded Cornell in 1865 with the idea of the school being open to all students regardless of sex, race, religion, nationality or ability to pay. Cornell is the federal land-grant institution of the state of New York State, a private endowed university, a member of the Ivy League (or Ancient Eight) and a partner of the State University of New York.

Located in Pullman, Wash., Washington State University was founded in 1890 and has 17,329 students.

Drake is a private, independent university in Des Moines, Iowa, with a student body of approximately 3,400 undergraduate and 1,900 graduate students.