What is your school \"known for\"?
 

Either just locally or nationally. I asked arod in his UNT thread becuase I am always curious for some reason what different universities are known for having prestige in.

Illinois State University is apparently nationally known for its education field. Certainly it seems to be respected within the field anyway. This makes sense as Illinois State was a "normal school" when it originated, ie., a college specifically for educating future teachers.

In addition I guess we are pretty well known for nursing students. I don't know too much about this aspect but I'm guessing it is much more of an "in state" prestige.


So indulge me and enlighten others, what is your college "famous for" in terms of prestige in specific academics?

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football and lighting stuff on fire

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After talking to people who go to school just up the road:

Suicide. We are still number 1.

So much for THAT ad campaign...

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Lots of things. At the undergrad level, the most world-renowned is likely theatre. Graduate level, business or education.

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i guess the best things academic wise at u of i according to u.s. news would be engineering and accounting

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I feel I should add, to make sure that you include what school you're from. Since I have no idea what the first 2 people are referencing.

I think I figured out Dan's college [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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football and lighting stuff on fire

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obv The Ohio State University

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Waterloo: Computer Science, Computer/Electrical/Software Eng, Quantum Computing and the co-op program would be the big ones I guess.

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football, drinking, meatheads

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Maryland: Riots, meanest fans in the country, basketball, drinking. Pretty good business, architecture, journalism.

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Business school
Jews

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Ice cream

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I think it'd be more interesting to know the non-academic things schools are known for. Otherwise we will just have a list of "Business" or "Liberal Arts" [censored] that can be looked up in 2 seconds on USNews.com.

Sac State was known for having chickens roaming across campus.. but 2-3 years ago the (new) President was worried about West Nile and SARS, so he told anyone that wanted one to just go and take 'em off of the campus. No more chickens. People have blamed the new President of branding and selling the college. Although everyone knew the school as "Sac(ramento) State," all the clothing and official school items were labeled as CSUS. Now, everything is "Sacramento State."

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football and lighting couches on fire

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obv WVU

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U of I:

- Engineering
- Business
- Athletes who get drive drunk, crash cars, and steal things
- Being in the middle of nowhere (Champaign, IL)
- Unofficial St. Pat's Day
- Assembly Hall being one of the toughest places to play NCAA basketball at (Orange Krush baby)
- "One of the nation's premier public universities" - according to our chancellor on our promo commercial during bball games.

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My school (Belmont) cranks out celebrities...

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We went to HS together too.

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Business school
Jews

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what school?

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Oh, I should add...

Stephen Colbert.

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everyone say wat school!

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U of MN... being really big and really bad at athletics.

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U of MN... being really big and really bad at athletics.

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Not hockey.

Ehh, whats that all abeauuuuuut.

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UGA...football, univ is 90% white in a 60% white state, athletic association scandals, having a bomb ass college town, very bad alcohol problems, hate crimes apparently, and a final exam in a sports class that asked "how many halves does a basketball game have?"

the last happened in 2003 I think...kinda sad

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Ugly people.

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U of I:

- Engineering
- Business
- Athletes who get drive drunk, crash cars, and steal things
- Being in the middle of nowhere (Champaign, IL)
- Unofficial St. Pat's Day
- Assembly Hall being one of the toughest places to play NCAA basketball at (Orange Krush baby)
- "One of the nation's premier public universities" - according to our chancellor on our promo commercial during bball games.

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you forgot Hugh Hefner
we're also known for getting rid of the Chief
in business, we're known for accounting as its like #1 in the nation
oh and one of the buildings on campus was a terrorist target because of the computer they built there
oh and we have the larget Greek system in the nation i think (Frats suck, sororities ... well if they're hot i guess its ok)

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famous poker players/ sexy people/ binge drinking

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Nebraska:

ugly white farmer hicks. college football. corn.

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drexel university:

co-op program
asians
consistently highly ranked in the princeton review for "campus is tiny, unsightly, or both"

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Auburn:
- awesome football team
- at one point I think we had 7 national championships in men's swimming in a row
- rolling toomer's corner after an auburn athletic victory
- pretty solid engineering program
- really hot girls

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Rich people, cocain usage and hot women.

Edit: Add soccer to the list. Any guesses?

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Arnold Palmer, Tim Duncan, Chris Paul, kinda Ricky Prohl. Somehow getting to the Orange bowl this past year. Tobacco "heritage."

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U of I:

- "One of the nation's premier public universities" - according to our chancellor on our promo commercial during bball games.

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My favorite is during my senior year tours of UofI they kept saying over and over that it was "a public ivy." I still get a kick out of that to this day.

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Uhh... 34 National titles in wrestling i guess

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Hahahaha, Dave D, awesome "Ricky Prohl." That is a fantastic answer.

Kep em comin dorm. I assume I'm not the only person finding these really interesting. And I think the thread taking a turn to non-academics worked out splendid. I'm getting some interesting information about places I would otherwise have 0 idea about (except U of I, half of the things listed for U of I are preached to you over and over, ugh).

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Hope College

Science mainly Chemistry

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Emory-- probably known for having one of the nicest college campus' ever and also known for having tons of hot japs.

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Burning Couches, Partying, Football

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Business school
Jews

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what school?

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im guessing upenn

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Macalester College (MN):

Top 25 Liberal Arts School (Great econ, math, cs, bio & international poli sci, Kofi Annan is an alum)

Outside of education we are known for international diversity, hippies, MN Normal activists, protests, smart lazy kids & high tuition

Edit: oh yeah we have been a top 5 school in soccer (D3) for over a decade

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most expensive school in the nation
rich jews
political wannabes

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Emory-- probably known for having one of the nicest college campus' ever and also known for having tons of hot japs.

[/ QUOTE ]University of Washington >>>>>>>> Emory on both counts. So are lots of other left coast schools.