That’s confusing as heck, California. I always thought there was only one “Cal Poly”.
NYC used to have “Polytechnic University” - mostly we just called it “Poly” back in the day in Brooklyn, then NYU bought it and started calling at NYU-Poly, and now it’s NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. I think NYU was buying it the year D and I toured.
McDaniel College (MD) was formerly known as Western Maryland College, but they changed their name partially because people believed they were public when in fact they are private. The name MCDaniel was chosen to honor a longtime benefactor I believe.
Only California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo seems to be known out-of-state; it is the most residential CSU and is more likely to be thought of as a “destination” campus than California State Polytechnic University - Pomona, which has about half of its students commuting from the local area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University_Tandon_School_of_Engineering lists the following names:
1854: Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute
1889: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
1973: Polytechnic Institute of New York (acquires NYU engineering)
1985: Polytechnic University
2008: Polytechnic Institute of New York University (begins acquisition by NYU)
2014: New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (completes acquisition by NYU)
2015: New York University Tandon School of Engineering (donation from Tandon)
@ucbalumnus yes it has a long and interesting history! “Back in my day” it was apparently officially called Polytechnic Institute of New York or Polytechnic University.
So to us, Poly.
U Penn gets confused with Penn State all the time.
University of Delaware is public, though?
Northern Vermont University
Castleton (if you leave out the “State University” part)
“University of Delaware is public, though?”
I goofed. You are right. I was thinking of Delaware Ohio and that is University is Ohio Wesleyan obviously not what we’re talking about. I don’t know why the University of Delaware popped into my head.
I still haven’t convinced my elderly mother that William and Mary is a public university. I will admit that I thought Auburn was private until about a year ago.
Generally, schools named after a state are public with some exceptions such as Univ. of Penn., New York University, Washington University in StL., which are privates. Schools named after a city, in most part, are privates, i.e., University of San Francisco, Univ. of San Diego, Univ. of Rochester, Univ. of Redlands, Univ. of Richmond, etc. Generally, schools named after a person are private, i.e., Stanford, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Rice University, Emory University, etc.
Purdue University sounds like a private college, but it is a public college.
So of these schools that are named after a city, which ones are private and public, and which ones are affiliated with a religion?
Seattle University
University of Portland
University of San Francisco
Santa Clara University
University of San Diego
University of Phoenix
University of Denver
University of Houston
University of New Orleans
University of Chicago
Miami University
Oakland University
University of Detroit
University of Lousville
University of Memphis
University of Cincinnati
University of Pittsburgh
Providence College
Boston University
University of Richmond
College of Charleston
Jacksonville University
University of Miami
The College of Idaho is private.
Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. I probably lived in the SF Bay Area for 20 years before I found out it wasn’t private and was part of the University of California system.
Two in my State of Massachusetts: Mass College of Art and Design and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
Alternatively, RISD (Rhode Island School of Design)is private.
Colorado College and the University of Denver are both private.