Colleges with best/worst names

<p>i have always liked all the "&" names- William and Mary, Washington and Jefferson, Franklin and Marshall, and, of course, Washington and Lee, the best of them all.</p>

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These past few months as my daughter had been researching/planning her visit to Ursinus and other schools, we were pronouncing it UR-sin-us which was ugly enough... she is out there visiting this week and discovered the name is pronounced ur-SIGH-nus, which is even uglier! ;-) We laughed about that. She liked the school a lot, regardless!

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<p>Oh, I always thought it was UR-sin-us too. haha. I like Villanova too, it has a good ring to it. Johns Hopkins sounds professional and nice. I would say Princeton wins hands down for best name though!</p>

<p>pirt, when this lady suggested I look at William and Mary, my father said "you are not going to a college that sounds like it is named after a husband and wife".</p>

<p>Haverford and Berklee are pretty bad. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>I don't like Bucknell at all...I dunno if I could go to a school where I didn't like the name. There would be always that something that bothered me...</p>

<p>brown is the most generic, bowdoin is the most commonly mispronounced, tufts is the hardest to say.</p>

<p>I think Bowling Green State University is just plain terrible. Who names a college that? WHY?!?!</p>

<p>I like Yale, Dartmouth, and just saying UW (pronounced You-Dub), but maybe that's just because I'm from Seattle. But I hate Washington State University, or WAZZU as it is commonly called. (I saw somebody with a WAZZU sticker on the back of their car, and I thought it should say "Wazzup" but the P fell off)</p>

<p>Before I knew anything about Northwestern, I thought it was nearby and couldn't figure out where it was. Heh.</p>

<p>Ball State is kinda suspect</p>

<p>university of (city) schools. i really believe that if EVERYTHING was the exact same about Uchicago, (student body, professors, location, size, etc) but had a different, more unique name, it would be exponentially more prominent. as a matter of fact, i have often thought that the university of chicago would be the best school in america if not for its name. everything seems perfect about that place for the academic superstar except for its awfully mediocre name. schools like university of new orleans, university of tulsa, etc. are as average as they come; because of that, chicago's name recognition factor will never be what it could be otherwise due to its name.</p>

<p>never liked occidental and kalamazoo</p>

<p>id love to go to fordham university, just so i can answer FU when ppl ask where i go</p>

<p>furman would work there too.</p>

<p>UVAJOE: Don't get ketchup on your $400 dollar slacks that Papa Senator bought. (Yeah, I read the article a UVA kid wrote about UCB.)</p>

<p>Middlebury doesn't leave me terribly enthusiastic..:)
Then again, there is worse. A friend told me that he found Porn University on the internet once.</p>

<p>I beg to differ that all that is wrong with UChicago is its name. From its reputation and people I know who have gone there, it seems like the least fun of the top 50 academic schools in the country.</p>

<p>That "great books" curriculum at Chicago is pretty crazy....</p>

<p>brandeis sounds like a presitigious college name</p>

<p>G dub is the best</p>

<p>Furman could be best or worse depending on how you look at it ;) My friend goes there and he says it was once called Furman University of Christian Knights...yes...F.U.C.K...lol Now they've changed it to just FU!</p>

<p>haha Notre Dame has the 'great books' major too ... kinda silly if you ask me.</p>

<p>Would Carnegie Mellon U sound any better if it was Carnegie AND Mellon University?</p>

<p>I like the colleges named after cities (like U of Chicago). They sound urban and sophisticated. Well, except for maybe U of Akron.</p>

<p>Imagine if Ball State was a private school...University of Ball.</p>

<p>I mentioned before the ones that sound like you're clearing your throat: Tufts, Dartmouth, Rutgers, Hofstra, Lehigh, Goucher, Pitzer.</p>

<p>Worst: Wooster College.</p>