California University of Pennsylvania
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The New School
Any school with “State University of Another State”
University named after Stone Cold Steve Austin, sounds pretty cool to me.
Jk
@MurphyBrown Google Zacharias Ursinus and the college’s website for information on the 16th century German Reformed theologian for whom the college was named. I learned about him in confirmation class in 7th or 8th grade. Maybe Zacharias should have kept his birth surname (Baer), but I doubt that the college name will be changed just because of a rather negative connotation to the sound of the name in English, especially when pronounced incorrectly.
Northwestern kinda bugs me because its not in the Northwest. It’s in the midwest. Call it Midwestern University
Golden Gate University is a nonprofit, regionally accredited institution that sounds like a diploma mill. I think St. Olaf has a nice ring to it, though.
Which in turn were named after rivers and creeks.
Re #184, Northwestern University (founded 1851) was at one time in the northwestern United States. (Washington State, for comparison, was admitted to the Union in 1889.)
Seton Hill and Seton Hall were named after the same woman, Elizabeth Seton.
“Northwestern kinda bugs me because its not in the Northwest. It’s in the midwest. Call it Midwestern University”
There is already a Midwestern University - it’s a health sciences school in suburban Chicago.
Northwestern was named that because it was part of the Northwest Territories that we obtained from England in the late 1700s in the Treaty of Paris, which I’m sure you remember from history class. In 1851 when it was founded, there weren’t a lot of states that were more west.
Snow College
The now Arcadia University used to be Beaver College. Bad name in so many ways, especially when it was a when’s college.
The Beaver was my HS mascot. The school has since closed and been torn down, but there are still Beaver reunions!
I believe the beaver is the mascot of MIT and Caltech.
One reason Beaver was renamed is because when students googled the college on their high school computers results were blocked because it was an inappropriate word.
The College of New Jersey isn’t the greatest name because it invites comparisons to Princeton, but it’s at least better than the school’s former name, Trenton State. Trenton isn’t an area you want to associate a school with, especially not after it’s been moved to another location.
In that regard, Rutgers Newark and Rutgers Camden aren’t the greatest names either because of the stigma attached to those cities, but the schools don’t have much a choice. Unless they break off from Rutgers, they have to include their locations to differentiate themselves from the New Brunswick campus.
When I first moved to California I was amused to hear there was a school called Harvey Mudd. Really, who would want to go to a school called MUDD, I thought. Lo and behold, thousands of people do. 
I can’t stand it when colleges call themselves universities.
I have a close relative who briefly attended Beaver College back in the day. In fact, I found a (never sharpened) Beaver College pencil in my mother’s basement the other day. Should we try to sell it on Ebay? 
@ExpertOnMistakes, not to mention the fact that Princeton was known as the College of New Jersey from its charter in 1746 until 1896…
“I can’t stand it when colleges call themselves universities”
How about the other way around? Dartmouth College certainly meets every definition of a university
I’m a big believer in the importance of place names. I won’t live in a town with a dumb name or on a street with a dumb name. D1 had an interest in Harvey Mudd for a while, which fortunately faded. But I was distressed at the thought she could end up there.
Sweet Briar. Does not sound like a serious school. Maybe that’s their problem.