Public universities with private-sounding names

Only California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo seems to be known out-of-state; it is the most residential CSU and is more likely to be thought of as a “destination” campus than California State Polytechnic University - Pomona, which has about half of its students commuting from the local area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University_Tandon_School_of_Engineering lists the following names:

1854: Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute
1889: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
1973: Polytechnic Institute of New York (acquires NYU engineering)
1985: Polytechnic University
2008: Polytechnic Institute of New York University (begins acquisition by NYU)
2014: New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (completes acquisition by NYU)
2015: New York University Tandon School of Engineering (donation from Tandon)