Does naming a division after a someone make it seem more prestigious?

cobrat
Sun, 15 Nov 2015 17:54:23 +0000

Cobrat: And yet I knew about NYU acquiring Brooklyn Polytech to restart engineering. Just never heard it referred to as Tandon, which was given an example in the OP as possibly making a school more attractive.

The naming of Tandon came later. When the merger just happened, it was mainly known as NYU-Poly.