Colleges & universities with the best names?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stately:
The Sorbonne
Oxford
Cambridge
Franklin & Marshall
Dickinson
Gettysburg
Swarthmore
Georgetown
Washington & Lee

Awful:
Muhlenberg
Sewanee: The University Of The South
IUPUI
Salisbury
Any Direction State

To my immigrant ears, the bolded are also awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of the South (fka Sewanee)
Bowdoin (never sure how to pronounce)

Still called Sewanee (officially Sewanee: The University of the South).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worst:

California University of Pennsylvania
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Indiana: the worst state name -- so named because Indians once lived there. I kid you not

This reminds me of a tasteless joke from years ago, when r Charles and Diana got married. Where did Charles go for his honeymoon? Indiana!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Bowdoin (never sure how to pronounce)

BOH-din.

[Anonymous]

Princeton
Columbia
Cambridge
Oxford
Colleges named after state sounds good.
Colleges names after Direction sounds bad.
All the SLACs have weird names

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actual bad names:
Salisbury State
Skidmore
Colgate
Grinnel
Goucher


Names that are so bad they are actually great:

Harvey Mudd
Transylvania U
Colorado School of Mines

Names that sound classy:

Cambridge
Oxford
Georgetown
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt

I went to Notre Dame, and everyone pronounced it "Note-er Daym." Don't know if that makes it more classy or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lovely:

-Radford University frequently misunderstood as/confused with

-Radcliffe

-The College of William & Mary in Virginia

Awful:

Rutgers
Drexel (dreadful)

Radford does have a nice sounding name.

[Anonymous]

Actual bad names:
Salisbury State
Skidmore
Colgate
Grinnel
Goucher

Towson State and Salisbury State are now Towson University and Salisbury University. It does make the latter much better. Frostburg State is still Frostburg State, which I don’t understand.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland sounds religious when it’s not.

[Anonymous]

Awful: Bob Jones University
Racist: Washington and Lee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Awful:

Ursinus College
Juniata College

Ursinus is MUCH worse than Juniata, come on!

[Anonymous]

Not great:

The Cooper Union
Any school with the word "Tech" in it (even Cal Tech).

I am not saying these are not outstanding schools, I just don't like the names.

[Anonymous]

The whole Miami confusion needs to be resolved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pepperdine

Hamilton

What is wrong with Hamilton?

Sounds traditional, easy to pronounce…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slippery Rock

One of the top schools on my kid’s list, despite the strange name

It is reasonably priced even for out of staters and has good programs in the fields she is interested in

To be honest, the strange name is part of the appeal

It is in such a gross part of PA though!!! Has she toured it?

-Native Pittsburgher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:John’s Hopkins
Georgetown
UMD
Naval Academy Annapolis

It is Johns Hopkins