All the country’s oldest colleges are private, founded when the United States consisted of the East Coast. To this day, the Northeast is still a stronghold of private colleges and universities, with few prestigious public ones. When the country expanded westward in the 1800s, public education became a reality and thus the state university systems in the Midwest, South, and West are much stronger.
-Fiske Guide To Colleges
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