<p>I get Wellesley College and Wesleyan University messed up all the time. Which one is the all girls school?</p>
<p>Wellesley College (in MA) and Wesleyan College (in GA) are both women's colleges. </p>
<p>But Wesleyan University (in CT) is coed.</p>
<p>UPenn and Penn State.</p>
<p>Cornell College (in Iowa) and one of those Ivy schools.</p>
<p>It's got to be tough for the Cornell College folks, especially considering that they had the name first.</p>
<p>Wells
Lee</p>
<p>Harvard/Haverford
Washington University/University of Washington (Missouri vs. Washington)
University of Miami/Miami University (Florida vs. Ohio)
Illinois Institute of Technology vs. ITT Tech. Institute.</p>
<p>Any college or university or seminary with the word "Concordia" in it. </p>
<p>According to [url=<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia_University_%28disambiguation%29%5DWikipedia%5B/url">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia_University_%28disambiguation%29]Wikipedia[/url</a>], the US and Canada collectively have:</p>
<ul>
<li>9 "Concordia Universities";</li>
<li>3 "Concordia Colleges"; </li>
<li>1 "Concordia University College"</li>
</ul>
<p>Eight of the Universities and two of the Colleges form the "Concordia University System", but the others are unaffiliated. And then there are the seminaries, which include:</p>
<ul>
<li>1 "Concordia Seminary"; </li>
<li>1 "Concordia Lutheran Seminary";</li>
<li>1 "Concordia Theological Seminary";</li>
<li>1 "Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary"</li>
</ul>
<p>The Lutherans evidently have some kind of rule about school names.</p>
<ul>
<li>1 "Concordia Seminary";</li>
<li>1 "Concordia Lutheran Seminary";</li>
<li>1 "Concordia Theological Seminary";</li>
<li>1 "Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary"</li>
</ul>
<p>that's pretty badass, I must say</p>
<p>Omg, yes, the Concordias!</p>
<p>UPenn and Penn State.</p>
<p>(UMass) Dartmouth
Cornell (College)
Ha(verfo)rd
Columbia (College)
Penn (State)
Princeton (Theological Seminary)
(George) Brown (College)</p>
<p>I vote for the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. It's neither Indiana University, nor is it the University of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>It always irks me when people mistake BC for BU.</p>
<p>Indiana University of Pennsylvania is called that because it is in Indiana County, PA.</p>
<p>Well yes, tokyorevelation9, you know that and I know that. But how many regular people know that? How many regular people wouldn't confused IUP with IU or UP?</p>
<p>So which is more prestigious: </p>
<p>Indiana University of Pennsylvania ? or
California University of Pennsylvania ?</p>
<p>Well, as a born and raised ex-Pennsylvanian, I would have to say that among Pennsylvanians, most would tell you that IUP is generally more well known and desireable than CUP, although both are comparable 4th-Tier public institutions founded around about the same time in the mid-19th century.</p>
<p>Anyway, colleges that confuse me:</p>
<p>Trinity University (TX), Trinity University (DC), Trinity College (CT).</p>
<p>City University of Hong Kong vs Chinese University of Hong Kong from the initials (CUHK)
Teikyo Post University (I found out later why this was so)</p>
<p>Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) vs. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)</p>
<p>San Diego State, San Jose State, San Quentin State.</p>
<p>I don't get how people could confuse Penn and Penn State. It seems like it would be pretty easy to figure out which is the state school. Then again, when I lived in Europe and professors found out I was from Michigan, they would often ask, "Which is the public university, Michigan or Michigan State?" It was tough explaining that both Michigan and Michigan State were public.</p>