Dusquense:
It rhymes with “blue rain”
Berkeley:
It has three E’s
USC
Columbia College
Cornell College
Wheaton College
Xavier University
So does Berklee (Berklee College of Music).
Susquehanna University
Worcester Polytech (WPI) (Hint-Worcester is pronounced with 2 syllables)
RPI. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) I have to go to Google if I want to spell it. Apparently many of their applicants do misspell it.
WPI isn’t much better Worcester is pronounced somewhere between “Wustah” and “Wooster”
U Penn and Penn State, in the mistaken category.
Wellesley and Wesleyan. No good reason, but I have heard it.
Conn College and U Conn.
Pomona College and Cal Poly Pomona.
UCSD (University of California at San Diego) and USD (University of San Diego)
University of <>
vs.
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Harvard Kennedy School of Goverment (regular masters and PhD programs) and Harvard Kennedy School of Government Executive Education Programs (lots of attendees of the latter are very confused as to the difference).
Bowdoin
–> Mispronunciation
(now coin? no coin? now cone? no cone? no go in? now go in?..)
There are just too many “St. Mary’s”
University of Texas and Texas A&M (my friends in Maine can’t seem to keep them straight - it drives me crazy)
Bowdoin rhymes with “flowed in”
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Dusquense:
It rhymes with “blue rain”
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Duquesne
Northeastern is often confused with Northwestern
oh, I know that @GMTplus7 – but I didn’t until (maybe a couple years ago) someone explained it in a Bowdoin thread. In fact, I think I probably asked them how it was pronounced. I didn’t want to be mispronouncing it in my head. hehe
I figured others have issues with it so I posted it here. 
JHU. I often hear, “Johns? Are you sure it is not John? Who the heck would misspel such a common name?”
DePauw and DePaul