Worst university name

I have always been intrigued by: Salve Regina University

 

I was bursting with school pride when Salve Regina was sung at Mass on Tuesday PM.

 

Karis: "I have always been intrigued by: Salve Regina University"

John: Me, too -- as a school name. What if they opened an office in one of the odder city names, Corpus Christi?

As for the "FU" schools . . . brings to mind the occasional college prank where four people, with big-letter sweatshirts from Fordham, Union, Chicago, and Kansas walk down the street side by side. I believe from time to time they are actually arrested for so doing.

 

Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do. Good thing Capella doesn't require auditions, although I sing tenor...10 or 12 miles away

Shawn

 

Longwood University
Charter Oaks - Sounds like a nursing home

 

I wonder if you could put "University of Maryland at Adelphi?" Other top schols that sounds weird are.

Duquesne University?
Syracuse University?

Not top, but...

Argosy University

I heard different people pronounce differently!!!

 

Lehigh University
Dartmouth University
Peru State College

 

D’Youville College.

 

OOOooo! I almost went to Duquesne! I love that French name (but Pittsburg not so much)

 

Not a school name, but an Olympia, WA area school had beavers as the mascot. So their nemesis (I guess) spray painted "LICK THE BEAVS" in huge letters on a railroad overpass. Bloody hilarious.

Aw, but I had so hoped to enter their Queer Studies MA. Well now I'm just disappointed.

I hate to admit it, but I'm not fond of Excelsior's name. It sounds like a mystical sword or something.

Full Sail. Some of their programs look good, but I just can't take it seriously.

Argosy. Merger of totally normal-sounding schools, so maybe they wanted something different. (Argosy means a fleet of ships, so it's fitting).

Ball State. Seriously. Balls. By which I mean their excellent athletics program of course.

 

I'm not a fan of the names Amridge University or TUI University.

Looking through this thread, I am reminded that name changes aren't always for the better.

 

Tui

As long as the university is regionally accredited, the name means nothing to me!

 

Neither is Deganawidah Quetzalcoatl University. As I recall, it used to occupy a surplus military radio-station facility a few miles south of Davis California. It eventually lost its accreditation and closed.

(Everybody called it 'DQU'. It seemed to me that with a school like that, if you couldn't pronounce its name, then you probably weren't the kind of student that they were looking for.)

It would be a very good thing if Mercy was brought together with Paine.

 

What did Deganawidah Quetzalcoatl University do? Train priests for the Aztec religion?

 

Worst name?

How about Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU): ? Somewhat a bizarre university name and a real mouth-full... (No offense intended to the Catholic, private university system).

 

I don't know, it sounds kind of pretty to me....Arthurian images spring to mind...Scottish Highlands....

 

OLLU is referred to as “The Lake” in the area. (I grew up down the street from the campus and had my wedding in the university’s Sacred Heart chapel). Check out this photo of the campus:

http://www.ollusaintsathletics.com/d/SA_Table_display.pdf

 

Attractive building … At least the [locals] have shortened the name to “The Lake”. As I earlier mentioned … OLLU is still a mouthful and IMO believe a little strange in name; but to each their own...