Colleges & universities with the best names?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I was surprised how much I liked it when we took my daughter for a program in summer 2021. It gets badmouthed so much, but the campus is very nice. It has the programs my child is looking for, and will likely be one of her top choices next year.

[Anonymous]

Oral Roberts probably should have given a little more thought to its name.

[Anonymous]

Pitt. Armpit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like Harvey Mudd as a name.

My overseas relatives are confused by William and Mary.

Why the confusion?

[Anonymous]

Pork Chop University is a real school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oral Roberts probably should have given a little more thought to its name.

+100

Obviously, it should have been Anal Roberts.

[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

How is Colgate a bad name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

How is Colgate a bad name?

Most people think of toothpaste when they hear Colgate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High Point.

Like going to college is the "high point" of your life. Ugh.

Well, except it's named that because it is in High Point, NC.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

We used to call Fairleigh Dickinson Fairly Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

High Point sent my kid mail today. That’s a big ol nope

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Purdue makes me think of chicken 🤮

Colgate makes me think of brushing teeth

Babson sounds like a 1950s beauty school.

Hahaha. It does! Bates sounds like a scary motel.

[Anonymous]

Northeastern is such a cool name because culture and sophistication increase in the US as you go north and east. Besides the university moved away from NEU to henceforth being called NU, as in new or novel. That can’t hurt, though it eclipses the other directional school that has claims to NU.

[Anonymous]

Tulane — said with the lovely New Orleans accent. I just loved hearing locals say it when we visited.