<p>Transylvania: worst, but at least it’s very, very old. </p>
<p>Kalamazoo: can’t decide if it’s the worst or best name ever.</p>
<p>Worst: Georgetown in Kentucky, Cornell in Iowa, Holy Cross in Indiana</p>
<p>Best: Georgetown in DC, Cornell in NY, Holy Cross in MA</p>
<p>Best: Dartmouth, Princeton, Hendrix</p>
<p>Worst: New College, Miami (OH), Rice</p>
<p>Best: Wake Forest, Villanova, Vanderbilt, Northeastern, Princeton, Lehigh, Stanford, U.S. Naval Academy, West Point, Providence, American, Marist.</p>
<p>Worst: Duke, Brown, Cornell, Hofstra, Rutgers, Syracuse.</p>
<p>Worst: Brown, WUSTL, UPenn. Gives all those schools negative prestige.</p>
<p>Worst: Oxford College of Emory University. No I don’t go to school in England, it’s actually in rural Georgia.
Other worsts:
-Susquehanna University
-Quinnipac University
-Bowdoin College (I still don’t know how to pronounce it, and when I read it, think it sounds like bow down. No I refuse to bow down to your school)
-Sewanee-University of the South. No you’re a liberal arts college. Stop trying to sound like you’re the flagship university of the entire southern US.
-Skidmore College. I don’t want to go to a school that encourages skidding as much as possible.
-Centre College. IDK why, but I have a problem with the name. Maybe it’s because it looks like British English?
-DePauw University. It sounds like it’s saying De Paw, like that dog’s paw is so cool.
-Wheaton College. Whenever I read about Wheaton, I think of Stewie from Family Guy saying Will Wheaton.
-Hendrix College. It sounds like a school devoted to the study of acid rock a la Jimmy Hendrix.
-Earlham College. While ham is delicious, I wouldn’t want to be the Earl of it.
-New College of Florida. You were founded in the 1970s. Since then other Florida schools have sprung up. You don’t deserve that name.
-Wartburg College. Do I even need to explain this one?
-Ouachita Baptist University
-Albright College. What happens at night? Does the school waste electricity just to make sure the name is accurate?
-Emory and Henry College. Stop pretending. Even if you have another guy in your name, you’ll never be as awesome as us.
-Rust College. That’s not what I hope to be surrounded by during college.
-University of the Incarnate Word. It just sounds pretentious, as if that religious denomination is vastly better than every other sect.
-Longwood University. The worst is that it’s over 2/3rd female, so definitely does not live up to its name.
-Tougaloo College. Try saying that name without smiling.
-Walla Walla University. Ditto.
-D’Youville College. Ditto.
-Assumption College. What are you assuming?!
-Salisbury University. I don’t like steak.
-Wheelock College. I don’t particularly like it when my wheels are locked up.
-Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.
-The Sages College. Another school that sounds way too pretentious.
-Georgian Court University. It’s not even in Georgia!
-California University of Pennsylvania/Indiana University of Pennsylvania. When I first heard of these schools, I thought UPenn established some branch campuses in various states. Since I was confused, these are bad names.</p>
<p>[Slippery</a> Rock University](<a href=“http://www.sru.edu/index/pages/home.aspx]Slippery”>http://www.sru.edu/index/pages/home.aspx)</p>
<p>Best: Dartmouth, Princeton, Drexel (plus, their mascot is a Dragon, which is awesome), Cornell in ny, Wesleyan, Pomona, Colgate (there are worse things to be associated with than toothpaste…see below)
Worst: Skidmore, College of Wooster, Yale</p>
<p>Wow. No seconds for Transylvania U?</p>
<p>Note the nickname: ‘Transy.’ Even worse!
<a href=“http://www.transy.edu/[/url]”>http://www.transy.edu/</a></p>
<p>Colgate always cracks me up. Hardly anyone knows of Colgate University in my country. So just saying I study at Colgate would definitely be peculiar!</p>
<p>whenhen – Very funny, although I like the name Slippery Rock.</p>
<p>Worst
Ursinus (say it out loud, it sounds like … never mind), Skidmore (Skid Row?), Harvey Mudd (sounds too much like Harcourt “Harry” Mudd on Star Trek), Colgate (yep, the toothpaste thing), Oral Roberts (more toothpaste imagery), Tufts (a shedding animal), Gonzaga (Godzilla?)</p>
<p>Best
University of <a href=“to%20me,%20that’s%20how%20a%20university%20name%20should%20sound”>state name</a>.
Names with a bit of a lilt: Villanova, Meredith, Susquehanna
Double names: William and Mary, Washington and Lee</p>
<p>Hey my DD is a proud student of Slippery Rock University. She loves it there and it is much less expensive than our state schools here in Ohio. Just had to chime in.</p>
<p>gladiatorbird – I like the sound of the word Transylvania. However, can you imagine trying to get a job in health care as a graduate? Phlebotomy, anyone?</p>
<p>Lamm- I go to Oxford College of Emory University which is easily one of the most misleading names out there. Plus it’s hard to say. Just because the name sucks doesn’t mean the school isn’t awesome.</p>
<p>East Carolina University and West Carolina University – guess the state of North Carolina decided to take over all of the directions besides South.</p>
<p>How about ambiguous abbreviations:</p>
<p>USC – one of the at least three universities changed its name to reduce confusion, but there are still at least two universities with that abbreviation
SDSU – at least two universities</p>
<p>Another curiosity is that the two Cal Polys have different actual names (besides the location part):</p>
<p>California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona</p>
<p>There are a lot of names that are easily confused with other schools. Some are Trinity in TX and Trinity in CT, Cornell College in Iowa and the more famous Cornell in Ithaca, and lots of schools with the words Wesleyan or Concordia in them.</p>
<p>some college’s names sound very pretentious… like vanderbilt or princeton</p>
<p>I second Transylvania. I’d hate to be a medical person with that diploma on the wall for all to see. :p</p>
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Wanna make it worse? I have a pin that says “I’m a Mudder’s Mudder” and my husband has one that says “Mudd Dadd”.</p>
<p>Wesleyan… in Middlesex county</p>
<p>Kalamazoo is, without a doubt, the best college name around! I mean come on, it is soo much fun to say <3</p>
<p>Then New College is dumb because one day it won’t be new anymore and Berry College is pretty lame too as is Southern Methodist University. Like the only school more exclusive is Brigham Young University. (In the inviting-feel sense)</p>