Cool sounding names

Hello!


Let's post funny sounding names of education institutes! I found that one funny: "Imperial Academy" (is one course provider in London, no connection to Mr. Skywalker known).


Best regards,
Mac Juli

 

Cool? Not sure. Weird? Yes.

Friends University
Life University
Presentation College
Colgate University
Converse University
Plaza College

 

Bath Spa University
College of Great Falls
Slippery Rock University
Tufts University
Unexus University

 

Batman University (no, really. https://batman.edu.tr/)

 

Prometheus College
Flaming Rainbow College
Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities
Argosy University

 

My picks are:

• Oral Roberts University
• University of the Incarnate Word
• Little Big Horn College
• TUI University
• Our Lady of the Lake University

 

Alas! The University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople is (probably) fictional.

 

Olds College
Visible Music College

 

Yeah, it is. But you can still get a sweatshirt. https://peter-schickele-website.myshopify.com/products/university-of-southern-north-dakota-at-hoople-sweatshirt-new

 

GlobalNxt University
New Charter University (now Bottega University)

 

Right. Bottega - I have some dim memories of that school, from years ago. I seem to remember mostly young guys, hanging in the doorways, with malt liquor bottles, saying things like "How go la lucha, homes?" .... No, I guess that was Bodega U. Sorry....

 

How about India's "Lovely Professional University." Sounds odd to us - not to them. As one of our eminent senior members said, "At least they didn't call it "SEXY Professional University."

"Lovely" is a fully-accredited, very well-regarded school that long ago, made quite sure it was a particularly good environment for women students. Something that's (to me, anyway) very desirable and I don't think such an emphasis is all that common in its country. "Lovely" has a different sound to Indian ears. In our town, we have a car lot, "Lovely Motor Sales" - and yes, it's Indo-Canadian owned.

 

When I saw the "tr" country code I thought of Transylvania. Nope -Turkey. Batman is a different kind of bat - this ain't Dracula!

 

Here are a few weird examples from Germany:

• DIPLOMA University of Applied Sciences
• CODE University of Applied Sciences
• Constructor University
• Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences
• University of Labour
• XU Exponential University of Applied Sciences

 

They should go back to its original name, "Andrew Jackson University".

 

Yes, AJU was a good name. I was planning to go there for my bachelor's after my associate at Ashworth, but they changed to New Charter.

 

Okay - I'll come back Monday...

 

Kinki University. - Until they changed their name. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/21/kinki-university-changes-name-kindai

 

Andrew Jackson does not have the best modern reputation. Perhaps they could pick a less controversial President like Herbert Hoover or Warren Harding.

 

That's putting it mildly! https://www.vox.com/2016/4/20/11469514/andrew-jackson-indian-removal

It took a long time, but.... eventually.

Same with Canada's Egerton Ryerson, the "architect" of the terrible Residential School system for Native children. Ryerson University is now Toronto Metropolitan U. (sounds Russian Orthodox somehow , but -- OK) and Ryerson United Church, a few blocks away from me, is now Faith United Church. Once they got started with Ryerson -- it wasn't slow, but it WAS sure. I'm all for that. Document everything the guy did, then remove his name from the landmarks.

Happens during people's lives, sometimes. The former Trump Tower, in Toronto, is now re-named the St. Regis (hotels owned by the Marriott chain). Trump University was re-named - still Trump but not a University - and now it's gone.

Yep - the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Not always a bad thing, for the rest of us.