Colleges with best/worst names

College Search & Selection
701

<p>Worst: Kutztown University of Pennsylvania - sounds like its trying to rip off of UPenn, plus the first word makes me think of the word "klutz."</p>

<p>Fordham University - I mean, it's abbreviated "FU."</p>

<p>Also, I don't know if this is true but there is a rumor that Sam Houston State College used to be known as the Sam Houston Institute of Teaching (think about what the acronym would be).</p>

<p>Good name - Frostburg State University. I don't know why, but "Frostburg" just sounds really cool, like some sort of magical city in the sky or something.</p>

702

<p>It's funny. I applied to Clarkson University because I liked the name.</p>

<p>Seriously, I think Princeton is the prettiest name. Tufts I find ugly...</p>

703

<p>Trinity- good
Occidental- bad</p>

704

<p>ursinus is pretty bad..</p>

705

<p>UCLA, UCSD both damn good, so is UC berkeley, its called cal, damn nice</p>

706

<p>Dartmouth = Good
Colgate = Bad
I still love the saying, 4 out of 5 dentists recommend colgate university.
Brown = Bad
Bard = Bad
Bryn Mawr = Good
Bucknell = Bad
Duke = Good
Ursinus = Bad
Princeton = Good
WashU = Bad
Swarthmore = Good
Haverford = Good
Bowdoin = Good/Bad...Good Because it looks good, bad cause no one can pronounce it.
Amherst = Good
Rice = Bad
Wake Forest = Good
Carnegie Mellon = Bad
Grove City = Bad
Vanderbilt = Good
Wellesley = Bad (St st stutter much)</p>

707

<p>Assumption College-- Letting you answer your own questions!
Salisbury College-- Of culinary delights
Rider University-- Still hasn't paved over the stables
Mount St Marys University-- I'd rather not
Hood College-- Got Milk?
Rice University-- Plain or Pork-Fried
Pepperdine University-- Goes great with Hood's
Purdue University-- Tastes like chicken
SUNY—Stony Brook-- Waterfront property
The Citadel--College, or horror movie?
Converse College-- Inverse sounded too negative
Christian Brothers University-- Sponsored by the YMCA
Wheeling Jesuit University-- Around the town they go
Lipscomb University-- Ill leave that to the imagination
Campbell University-- mmm, mmm good
Lynchburg College-- Special open-house for minorities this spring
Marymount University-- I said no thanks
Morehead State University-- That is if you get a girl friend
Butler University-- Specializing in servitude
Carthage College-- Invading Rome this Fall
Grand Valley State University-- They thought 'Grand' offset 'State'
Walla Walla College-- THAT is the best name you can think of?
Oral Roberts University
Colgate University-- Recommended by 4/5 dentists
Rhodes College-- Producing the most Rhodes scholars since 1848
Skidmore College-- Laundry Services off-campus
Hope College-- I'm afraid its ill-conceived
Transylvania University-First to house the Metaphysical Transformation Tower
Messiah College-- Preparing for his return since 1909
John Brown University-- Slaughtering slave owners is now educational!
Coker College-- Housing the Crack institute of Narcotic Dissection
High Point University-- (Working with Coker College)
Shorter College-- You must be at most this tall to enter
Peace College-- Founded in 1960
Blue Mountain College-- Ruling Bluefield
Bluefield College-- Serving Bluemountain
Defiance College-- Educating those who refuse to educate themselves
Rocky Mountain College-- Specializing in Rocky Mountain Oysters</p>

<p>Its earlier in this thread (I dont know how to quote)
Kept me laughing out loud for at least 15 minutes. Thought it should be "bumped" to where people can see it.</p>

708

<p>Skidmore- sounds like a need to change my underwear.</p>

<p>And how about this one: Indiana University at Purdue University-Indianapolis. Come on, they even play division one basketball. good thing they haven't made the tournament in the past few years. Imagine writing that name to advance to the next round, could you even fit it on the line?</p>

<p>So some genius came up with IUPUI for short, but it looks like an Indian tribe upon first glance.</p>

709

<p>Actually, it's not Indiana University AT Purdue University--it's Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. And even wordier is Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Worth (IUPFW). The schools are a joint venture between IU and Purdue.</p>

710

<p>Worst names:
Indiana University in Pennsylvania
<a href="http://www.iup.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.iup.edu/&lt;/a>
Peru College in Nebraska
<a href="http://www.peru.edu/homepage/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.peru.edu/homepage/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

711

<p>John Brown College= <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_%28entity%29%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_%28entity%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>\m/ (^_^) \m/</p>

712

<p>i love the sound of berkley, you-vee-ay rolls off the tongue, and i like marquette</p>

<p>worse- colgate, rutgers, dickinson</p>

<p>this is copmletely based on the sounds</p>

713

<p>LOL colgate and tufts are my altime faves!</p>

714

<p>colgate means "go hang yourself" in spanish</p>

715

<p>I also love Fordham, espcially when named by my jewish grandfather from the bronx. Any NY'er who says Fordham correct is music to my ears.</p>

<p>Louisville, regardless if you say it slow or in a southern drawl.
Pepperdine is a nice name.
UOP (The abrievations), but don't like the full name U. Pacific
I don't like the names:
Pudget Sound Unv
Cal Tech (maybe cuz I don't like math)
Iona</p>

716

<p>Berkeley sounds just great. So does Caltech.</p>

<p>Colgate & Rice are rather appalling.</p>

717

<p>worst official name but best shortened name:</p>

<p>Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</p>

<p>other wise known as Virginia Tech</p>

718

<p>Worst: Central Connecticut State</p>

719

<p>I'd say Purdue.... just because going to a college that sounds like a brand of chicken doesn't appeal to me :P</p>

720

<p>worst:
Tufts
Harvey Mudd
Upenn--doesnt sound like ivy
Same concept for NYU, WashU, etc.</p>

<p>best:
Oxford
Yale
Cambridge (I like england as you can see)
and I like UConn, and Mercer for some reason...</p>