Worst Name of a B&M School

Thunderbird Graduate School
(Rate the #1 graduate school in international business by U.S. News and World Report.

 

What's wrong with Thunderbird?

 

I think Thunderbird is a great name.

For me, the worst name that comes to mind is "New School University." (Also a very presitigious school.)

 

Beaver College, lots of jokes.... Now Arcadia.

 

I remember reading, in my youth, a reference in Time magazine to "Bob Jones III, President of Bob Jones University."

I called to my father, "Hey, Dad! Did you know there's a university in the US called Bob Jones University?"

My father, a full professor, didn't know.

"And guess what the president is called."

"Er -- Bob Jones?"

 

Where I grew up we had Beaver's Kiddie College.
Day care for the little ones.

 

Slippery Rock

Ahhh Capella

Arrrgosy U

North

 

Probably because Phoenix was already taken so they decided to use Thunderbird.
They would have been better of using the name Blue Jay U.

 

I think the name Thunderbird is cool.

Besides reminding old guys like me of Thunderbird cars and bottles of Thunderbird, the name Thunderbird has an American Indian connection that fits Arizona.

Bad names?

Dyke College. (No, not Mills)

Maharishi University of Management

I used to hate the sound of Alliant International University (it sounds like a failed cell-phone company), but I'm getting used to it.

 

You never know what may happen with your name (as the President of once popular diet candy called Ayds might have said).

A Dean of Malcolm X College (Chicago) wrote that a (pink-skinned) job applicant, in the face-to-face interview, referred to "Malcolm the Tenth."

 

University of the Arctic sounds inviting.

 

Thunderbird's "real" name is The American Graduate School of International Management. Thunderbird seems to have started as its nickname, but has since taken over as its more recognizable name.

Tony

 

Possibly, but I prefer to think that they took Thunderbird because Mad Dog 20-20 College and Ripple University were already taken.






Tom Nixon

 

There is always the Uganda Martyrs University.

http://www.fiuc.org/umu/


John

 

Not to mention the pioneers of the accelerated format...Night Train Express College.


Bruce

 

And let's not forget the delightful (and, if memory serves, regionally accredited at the time) Flaming Rainbow University...

 

But, alas, no longer operating.

(It was RA, and was operated by the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.)

 

It's too bad there isn't a Richard Nixon University, or better yet, The Bob Dole Institute of Technology.

 

Other interesting tribal college names, from http://www.higher-ed.org/resources/LG_tribal_colleges.htm: Dull Knife Memorial College and Little Hoop Community College.

And from http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm01313.pdf: "Al Kuslikis [...] was instrumental in founding Standing Rock Community College, now known as Sitting Bull College, as well as Flaming Rainbow University."

 

If there is ever a Budweiser University I should be first on the list for honorary doctorates, based on the millions of dollars I have contributed through the years.: