Border States were not part of the Slaver political empire and did not share its cultural void. They remained part of the Union.
Again I do not consider the educational potential the same from one college to another. Neither do authorities on this issue.
You are incorrect. The legislature of the border state of Missouri adopted a secession ordinance and its populace split between the two sides. The border state of Kentucky officially declared neutrality while a rump government seceded and the population again split. A secession movement was underway in the border state of Maryland but the military invasion of the state and the arrest of pro-secession legislators by Lincoln preempted them from acting. The state nevertheless had units fighting in the armies of both sides.
Again I do not consider the educational potential the same from one college to another. Neither do authorities on this issue.
Given that you have neither established the educational potential of any college nor cited any authorities on the matter, what you personally "consider" to be the case is, at the present, irrelevant to the truth of this discussion.