universities' preferred names (schools, professor, attend, California)

[edsg25]

What are the preferred names for the universities in your state….can you give them with the official name and the preferred, i.e.

University of Missouri: Mizzou
University of Pennsylvania: Penn
Southern Methodist University: SMU

[North Beach Person]

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[Pitt Chick]

Originally Posted by edsg25

What are the preferred names for the universities in your state….can you give them with the official name and the preferred, i.e.

University of Missouri: Mizzou
University of Pennsylvania: Penn
Southern Methodist University: SMU

Preferred by who?

Do you mean nicknames instead?

[TabulaRasa]

University of Kansas is "KU," even though it's not "Kansas Univerity."

[GeorgiaTransplant]

Colloquially:
University of Colorado-Boulder is 'CU'.

University of Richmond typically goes by 'Richmond' or 'UR'.

Virginia Commonwealth University is 'VCU'.

California Polytechnic State University is 'Cal Poly'.

University of Washington is 'U-dub'.

[Clevelander17]

Fun fact: All of the schools that used to be in the Big Eight Conference arrange their initials ending in "U." Apparently it was some conference standard at the time.

University of Colorado: CU
University of Kansas: KU
University of Missouri: MU
University of Nebraska: NU
University of Oklahoma: OU

[DanielWayne]

Texas isn't very creative:

University of Texas: UT, sometimes abbreviated as UTA in articles, but not to be confused with UT-Arlington
UT El Paso: UTEP
Texas A&M: A&M
Texas Tech: Tech
University of Houston: UH (and they are the 'Coogs' not the Washington State 'Cougs')

[Yvanung]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaTransplant

Colloquially:
University of Colorado-Boulder is 'CU'.

University of Richmond typically goes by 'Richmond' or 'UR'.

Virginia Commonwealth University is 'VCU'.

California Polytechnic State University is 'Cal Poly'.

University of Washington is 'U-dub'.

How does Wisconsin fit in this?

[K-Luv]

The decade I lived in Minneapolis the University of Minnesota was always referred to as The U, but I am sure there are many "U's" out there.

University of Maryland is oftentimes just "Maryland" but some people will say College Park.

CSU Sacramento is Sac State.

CSU East Bay is sometimes referred to by its old name "Hayward", or sometimes just East Bay.

UC Berkeley is Cal.

UC Davis is just Davis.

UC Santa Cruz is just Santa Cruz.

MIT is The 'tute or Institute.

California Institute of Technology is Cal Tech but sometimes also referred to as the Institute.

Case Western Reserve is just Case Western or Case.

Originally Posted by Yvanung

How does Wisconsin fit in this?

I think it is referred to simply as "Wisconsin" as in On, Wisconsin. I know a few who attended and have never heard called by any other name.

[Yvanung]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

The decade I lived in Minneapolis the University of Minnesota was always referred to as The U, but I am sure there are many "U's" out there.

Only in Minnesota I heard people referring to the University of Minnesota as "The U".

Otherwise that professor that first suggested Minnesota to me referred to the University of Minnesota as just Minnesota. I wonder how commonly is that name used outside of Minnesota...