y…150,000 acres. This acreage would then be sold by the states and used to fund their state colleges. The Land Grant Act allocated 17,400,000 total acres to initially fund sixty-nine colleges, including Auburn University, the University of California, the University of Florida, the University of Georgia, Purdue University, the University of Kentucky, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota, Rutgers, Cornell, and Ohio State University.