How to Use state university in a Sentence

state university

noun
  • There are tough jobs in college football and then there is the state university of New Jersey.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Rosemarie had her eye on a big state university two hours west.
    Ann Givens, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Police in Wisconsin are stumped over who would steal a tree from the flagship branch of the state university.
    James Leggate, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Other issues in Sanders’ past might be old news but still could strike some as red flags at a state university.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2022
  • In Alabama, the state university system is leaving the choice up to each school.
    NBC News, 20 May 2021
  • His parents came to the United States as refugees at around his age, and got college degrees at state universities.
    Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 8 July 2023
  • Downie made the cut as the only graduate of a state university.
    Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Our grandchild went to a great state university with low tuition.
    Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
  • But that same year, a bill worked its way through the state House that would’ve done away with any rural protections on land within three miles of a state university.
    Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The result will be that red state universities have to pay higher salaries to hire and retain faculty.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Many colleges – from state universities to the Ivy Leagues – are using the ubiquitous pop star’s appeal and talent to teach their lessons.
    Bryan West, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The team gives one college scholarship to an in-state university to a Utah high school senior of color for every Jazz win.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • Ohio has just one other license plate for an out-of-state university: the University of Notre Dame.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The issue of slavery was discussed, immigration was on the agenda, and the formation of a state university and a state prison.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Just this week, the Senate, which Patrick oversees, gave its approval to a bill aimed at banning the theory from state universities and colleges.
    Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • But first who’s the new president of Cleveland state university.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Silagy remains the vice chair of the Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the state university system.
    Annie Martin, Sun Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Raised on the Broken Rock Reservation, Monica has served as a teacher both on the reservation and at the state university.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
  • More recently, in 2016, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas program that admitted the top students from wealthy and poor high schools into state universities.
    Rebecca Griesbach | Rgriesbach@al.com, al, 29 June 2023
  • Rachael Mills, of St. Paul, is a public health educator at a state university.
    Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Professor Edwin Driver arrived in Amherst in 1948 as one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country.
    Philip Marcelo, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2021
  • One of us teaches at a small liberal arts college, the other at a flagship state university, both in Virginia.
    Mary Kate Cary, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The cost is higher than my mortgage, and more than double the undergraduate tuition of the flagship state university a mile from my house.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Founded in 1828, the Medical College of Georgia is part of the state university system and one of the nation’s oldest and largest medical schools.
    Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The cook who has seen the greatest financial improvement is now a landscaper for a state university.
    Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
  • With concerns about college costs and the growing burden of student debt, one state university has a plan to change how its students manage their finances.
    Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Before there was a coaching change at Wyoming, Wilson’s state university had no interest in him.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2021
  • No reason was given to the Sun for the reversal, but UF said in a statement to the paper that no schools in the state university system would be conducting classes online.
    orlandosentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The three Young women all graduated within the last year from two-year state university programs.
    Neal St. Anthony, Star Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Roughly 9% of the school’s graduates, who were mostly Black and Hispanic, started at a state university that fall.
    Annie Martin, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2022

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