Colleges with best/worst names

College Search & Selection
321

<p>worst: Loma Linda University</p>

<p>And, if I am correct, it is situated in Walla Walla, Wash. Couldn't get much worse.</p>

322

<p>It's in southern California.</p>

323

<p>Best: Princeton, Vanderbilt, Yale, Amherst, University of Virginia
Sewanee, Wake Forest</p>

<p>Worst: Harvey Mudd College, I agree with someone below that they should definitely change the name. </p>

<p>Ball State and Skidmore are hilarious.</p>

324

<p>Not the worst, but certainly the most boring -- Smith</p>

325

<p>What about Brown, Mills, Davis, Washington (several flavors), American, Clark?</p>

326

<p>Not a college, but there's a prep school I play in basketball called Governor Dummer.</p>

327

<p>My parents graduated from Transylvania University...which I think is an amusing name. It's in Kentucky, by the way...hah!</p>

328

<p>Ursinus?????</p>

329

<p>Many of you will think that it is because I go to Berkeley, but I am really just not a fan of the name "Stanford." </p>

<p>Going over college names in my mind, anyone I sound out enough sounds pretty bad.</p>

330

<p>Most unusual I've encountered: Villa Julie</p>

331

<p>"Ursinus?????"</p>

<p>It could have been worse. They could have called it Uranus.</p>

332

<p>Some people seem to be bagging on Georgetown, but I think it sounds pretty awsome. Strong name.</p>

<p>Dartmouth and Amherst are cooler though.</p>

333

<p>It's been mentioned already, but we had to practically drag S to see Tufts because he couldn't get past the name. :rolleyes: When he finally got there though, it became one of his top choices.</p>

334

<p>i really don't think tufts is that bad of a name</p>

335

<p>i don't get why people don't like the name georgetown either.</p>

<p>GEORGETOWN.</p>

336

<p>I was speedreading post 325, Brown, Mills, Davis, and one of my favorite musicians popped into my head...</p>

337

<p>Harvey Mudd, Nazareth, Bob Jones, Skidmore, anything with the word Kentucky or Arkansas or Alabama.</p>

338

<p>Like
Cooper Union
caltech
columbia</p>

<p>Dislike
Harvey Mudd (such a good school should have a more respectable name)
Bob Jones U
D'Youville College (LOL it reminds me of Homer Simpson- D'Oh ville College)</p>

339

<p>People might not like the name Brown, but that allows the teams to be called the "Brown Bears." I think that's cute.</p>

<p>How about best/worst team names? One for the latter category --
Wake Forest Demon Deacons.</p>

340

<p>Pomona Peahens</p>