[selimthegrim]

Caltech is and always has been a private institution even when it was Throop College of Technology. To my knowledge the only public institution ever privatized in the US was Tulane (for reasons having to do with Jim Crow).

[bsmith89]

Ah, thanks for the correction. I was mistaken. Don't believe that it affects my argument, but sub in ...(quick search)... University of Oxford.