Colleges doomed to be mispronounced, mispelled, or mistakened for another school

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How about divisions of a school? Examples:

Columbia College (of Columbia University): there are also 9 schools named Columbia College.

Henry Samueli School of Engineering: there are two of them at different schools (UCLA and UCI); the one at UCLA has “and Applied Science” at the end of its name.

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UF and FSU. I applied and almost went to UF and my mom still calls it FSU.

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-Emory University vs. Emory and Henry College (I was wearing my Emory U sweatshirt and had a guy excitedly ask me if I was from VA. Had to disappoint him)

  • Oklahoma City University University and Oklahoma Christian University (both are abbreviated OCU and they’re 12 miles away from each other. To make it even more confusing there’s University of Central Oklahoma which is in the Oklahoma City metro region as well)
    -University of Oklahoma, Ohio University, and Oakland University are all abbreviated as OU.
    -University of Texas - Austin and University of Texas - Arlington
    -Cal State University Fresno and Cal State University Fullerton are both CSUF
    -Cal State University Sacramento and Cal State University Stanislaus are both CSUS
    -Augustana University (SD) vs. Augustana College (IL)
    -Northeastern State University (OK) vs. Northeastern University (MA)
    -Northwestern State University (LA) vs. Northwestern University (IL) vs. Northwestern College (IA)
    -Austin College (exurb of Dallas) vs. Austin Community College (Austin, TX)
    -New College of Florida vs. New School
    -Barry University (FL) vs. Berry College (GA)
    -Lewis & Clark College (OR) vs. Lewis-Clark State University (ID)
    -Cornell College (IA) vs. Cornell University (NY)
    -Benedictine College (KS) vs. Benedictine University (IL)
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Columbus State University… in Georgia!

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Re Columbia: We live in NJ, a stone’s throw from NYC.

Neighbor: Where’s your son going to college?
Me: Columbia
Neighbor: Oh, that’s a good teacher’s school! I didn’t know he was going into teaching.

And yeah, years of D going to Wesleyan:
Wellesley?
or
Which one?

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But interestingly enough, Columbia is a really good teacher’s school.

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Right, the graduate school, though.

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Bryn Mawr. Most people cannot even spell it. Indeed, my computer loves to auto-correct it whenever I enter it.

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Swarthmore v. Skidmore.

Northwestern University=NU, not NWU. Northwestern is one word, not two…

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On Wellesley vs Wesleyan, I was presenting the Wellesley Book Award a few years ago at the local HS, and the student they had chosen to MC the event introduced me as representing Wesleyan. (Wesleyan doesn’t sponsor a book award at this school.) First time that ever happened…

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Binghampton…north of Southampton and west of East Hampton.

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University of Rochester, everyone assumes Minnesota, but I’d always have to say no, New York.

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Lawrence University sells pins that say “Not St., not Sarah, just Lawrence”.

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Amherst College, UMASS Amherst
The H is silent.

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@momof3sons I like it when Northwestern University people get offended when Northeastern University dares to use the initials NU!

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Boston College and Boston University, even though Boston College is actually not in Boston but it is a university. What!?!

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^^ “Chestnut Hill University” doesn’t have the same panache.

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@STEM2017 But then it would be confused with Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, which is also a Catholic school.

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Fairleigh-Dickinson and Definitely Dickinson

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Not mispronounced, misspelled, or mistaken for another school, but Embry-Riddle has to have a place in this thread.

Whenever I mention it, I invariably get a…“huh?”