School names?

Colleges & Universities University of Southern California
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<p>I understand USC has divisions or names for majors etc</p>

<p>can someone explain that to me as to why?</p>

<p>to name a couple
marshall- business
college letters arts science- a lot</p>

<p>but as i was exploring the campus stores
i noticed that many of the school names had products like license plates, shirts, hats etc</p>

<p>the only one that didnt seem to have one was college of letters arts and sciences…
is there a reason why?</p>

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<p>probably because it’s not named, like Annenberg, Viterbi, Marshall, etc. It’s a generic school name, and has no short name other than LAS.</p>

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<p>It is usually called “USC College”.</p>

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<p>Georgia Girl is right, the CLAS at schools are usually referred to as “<em>School name</em> College”. Like Georgetown College or Harvard College. Annenberg, Viterbi, Marshall are all pre-professional schools, no? The common trend seems to be that those schools always end up being named through giving by generous alumni.</p>

<p><em>edit</em> I was also just looking at shirts out of curiosity and chuckled when I saw this shirt which most likely will be going on sale soon:
<a href=“http://store.cstv.com/marketplace/store_contents.cfm?cart_id=104020792858367841141112515120102201&store_id=22&dept_id=122&product_id=161813[/url]”>http://store.cstv.com/marketplace/store_contents.cfm?cart_id=104020792858367841141112515120102201&store_id=22&dept_id=122&product_id=161813&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>What about SCA? Pre-professional but has no “name” like the other schools do. And if I recall correctly, I didn’t see any license plates, shirts, et cetera with SCA on it. :(</p>

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<p>My friend has an SCA shirt…</p>

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<p>Wealthy Alumni or donors don’t always want their name attached to a college when they make substantial gifts to the school.</p>

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<p>and the newest named school is the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry.</p>

<p>Schools are typically named after someone who donates a lot of money. AFAIK, it has nothing to do with being pre-professional or not.</p>

<p>SCA is not named after anyone… yet. I think the only school that may not eventually be named is the College of Letters Arts and Sciences, simply because it’s such an all-encompassing school and no one donor would be adequate to represent it.</p>

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<p>SCA may as well be called the Lucas School of Cinematic Arts :P</p>