No. You claimed that they didn't care about developing them when the facts conclusively show that most southern states had MORE colleges in 1850 than their northern counterparts.
That list is interesting but the quality of education available at the vast majority of the schools in Mississippi barely qualified as higher education at any rate.
Garbage. You don't even have the slightest clue what specific colleges are included on that list and thus lack both the information and the expertise to properly critique the quality of their education programs vis a vis another state's.
There were 81 schools in the Confederate states mostly new and without much merit
More garbage. The confederacy included some of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the country. I already gave you the founding dates of the major state universities and most of them are late 1700's or early 1800's. The confederacy also had William and Mary - the second oldest college on the north american continent and one of the most prestigious and best established schools in any state (it gave us 4 of our first 15 presidents).
but that won't stop you from pretending they were the equivalents of those with almost 200 yrs of history behind them.
You mean like William and Mary?
It is true that education was severely neglected in the states which rebelled. Having mostly newly established colleges doesn't change that fact and even your list shows that there were 83 in those states compared to 123 in the rest of the nation. Hence you are incorrect.
Most of those MS colleges probably didn't survive the War and even if they did they were mediocre at best even today MS colleges are hardly a hotbed of scholarly production.
William and Mary was the only college which could even approach Columbia, Harvard, Yale, or Princeton and its existence does not disprove my contention.