Anonymous
Post 01/31/2023 20:20     Subject: Colleges & universities with the best names?
Anonymous wrote:John’s Hopkins
Georgetown
UMD
Naval Academy Annapolis


It is Johns Hopkins
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2023 20:18     Subject: Colleges & universities with the best names?
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
Post 01/31/2023 20:18     Subject: Re:Colleges & universities with the best names?
Anonymous wrote:Pepperdine

Hamilton




What is wrong with Hamilton?

Sounds traditional, easy to pronounce…
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2023 20:17     Subject: Colleges & universities with the best names?
The whole Miami confusion needs to be resolved.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2023 20:17     Subject: Re:Colleges & universities with the best names?
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
Post 01/31/2023 20:15     Subject: Colleges & universities with the best names?
Anonymous wrote:Awful:

Ursinus College
Juniata College


Ursinus is MUCH worse than Juniata, come on!
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2023 18:55     Subject: Re:Colleges & universities with the best names?
Awful: Bob Jones University
Racist: Washington and Lee

Anonymous
Post 01/31/2023 18:45     Subject: Re:Colleges & universities with the best names?
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
Post 01/31/2023 18:38     Subject: Colleges & universities with the best names?
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
Post 01/31/2023 15:50     Subject: Re:Colleges & universities with the best names?
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
Post 01/31/2023 15:45     Subject: Re:Colleges & universities with the best names?
Princeton
Columbia
Cambridge
Oxford
Colleges named after state sounds good.
Colleges names after Direction sounds bad.
All the SLACs have weird names
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2023 15:44     Subject: Re:Colleges & universities with the best names?
Anonymous wrote:
Bowdoin (never sure how to pronounce)


BOH-din.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2023 15:42     Subject: Re:Colleges & universities with the best names?
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
Post 01/31/2023 15:42     Subject: Re:Colleges & universities with the best names?
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
Post 01/31/2023 15:41     Subject: Re:Colleges & universities with the best names?
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.