Sierra College is a community college.
Most SUNYs were also private colleges until after WW2.
Sort of. Most were state teacher’s colleges. What became SUNY Binghamton was a private college for only about 10 years or so (Triple Cities College).
Clemson (even though it’s named after a city, it sounds private to me)
[I deleted my original post for being totally wrong.]
SUNY was not created until the late 40s. Prior to that, the NY State Legislature had directed state funds to various private institutions (including Cornell and Syracuse) for public education purposes. At the teachers’ college level, many of these by that point were completely reliant on state funding. Buffalo and Albany had existed for over a century as private universities at that point; Stony Brook was developed by the state; Binghamton had been created as a private institution receiving state funds only recently.
@JHS, the average person does not call those schools by those names. I’m only vaguely familiar with those colleges (not being from the east coast) by their sports teams, and that’s how the names are referred to. In fact, that’s all I did - I looked at each basketball conference and saw names, and the ones that looked ambiguous, I actually had to look them up to see if they were private or public. I guarantee you people who aren’t familiar with VCU or the Citadel wouldn’t know if they were public or private, and that’s all I’m going to say.
College of Charleston.
There are probably lots of colleges whose names may not be obviously private or public to those not familiar with them. Which of these is public or private?
Laney College
Menlo College
Pacific Union College
Santa Monica College
There are other types of names that may not be obviously public or private.
University of Southern California
University of Southern Mississippi
Flip side—D is an alumna of University of Rochester, which is private, though many ask if it is a SUNY.
D1 went to Purdue. I had a couple of relatives who were surprised to learn it was a public university.
Just some examples from Ohio. City names don’t help. University of Cincinnati, University of Toledo and University of Akron are all public universities. University of Dayton and University of Delaware are private.
University of Chicago is sometimes confused with University of Illinois Chicago.
re #18:
FWIW, at some point SUNY Binghamton deliberately rebranded to call itself “Binghamton University”. I read that this happened in 1992. To the extent that this name change “took”, it could be deemed now to have a private-sounding name. Though fooling nobody.
Regardless of whether it started out private, it was “SUNY Binghamton” for long enough that nobody even as old as I am knew it as anything else.
College of Charleston (SC) sounds private to me.
Several of the SUNY schools have rebranded to take on a private panache.
The University at Buffalo, Stony Brook University, The University at Albany, etc.
All of them are formerly known as The State University of New York at ______.
How about all of Pennsylvania’s PASSHE schools?
Bloomsburg University
California University
Cheyney University
Clarion University
East Stroudsburg University
Edinboro University
Indiana University
Kutztown University
Lock Haven University
Mansfield University
Millersville University
Shippensburg University
Slippery Rock University
West Chester University
Which are public and which are private?
University of Akron
University of Chicago
University of Dallas
University of Dayton
University of Denver
University of Houston
University of Miami
University of New Haven
University of New Orleans
University of Phoenix
University of Pittsburgh
University of Portland
University of Redlands
University of San Diego
University of San Francisco
University of Scranton
The tech schools don’t make it easy:
Private:
MIT
Cal Tech
Illinois Tech
Florida Tech
Public:
Va Tech
Texas Tech
Cal Poly
Colorado School of Mines
“Which are public and which are private?”
I know for sure that two are public (Akron and Pittsburgh and Pitt became a “state related” school in 1966) and I can identify a number that are private. There are a number I am really not sure about.
Some of the public ones are obvious from their full names:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
California State Polytechnic University - Pomona
However, for the “institutes of technology”, there are also these:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Indiana Institute of Technology
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New York Institute of Technology
Oregon Institute of Technology
Pennsylvania Institute of Technology