What makes your college famous?

[MikeMike]

If i mention Purdue to anyone, they know engineering.

but if i mention Kent State (where im transferring) they know it because of "oh, the place where they shot the students"

no one even knows they helped invent LCDs but o well.

 

[DainBramaged]

Rock Valley Community College.....hmmm......sh!t, I know, Rick Nielson, lead singer of Cheap Trick graduated here. lol

 

[Quasmo]

Ummm, Art.

Savannah College of Art and Design

 

[Queasy]

University of Alabama - Football...particularly Bear Bryant.

 

[j00fek]

nothing

 

[Safeway]

University of Texas at Austin:

Football
Baseball
Basketball
Research
Tower sniper

 

[Dgital]

mainly football

but also engineering, medicine, bussiness, and law

U of M is pretty big for a lot of things

 

[Kirby]

Originally posted by: Queasy
University of Alabama - Football...particularly Bear Bryant.

Don't forget George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door! And Forrest Gump! btw, i'm going to bama also.

 

[KillerCharlie]

Engineering, agriculture

Other things:
First digital computer, George Washington Carver, CEO of Lockheed Martin, former CEO of Boeing (okay, those last two most people don't care about)

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Dgital
mainly football

but also engineering, medicine, bussiness, and law

U of M is pretty big for a lot of things

Famous for these too.

 

[BHeemsoth]

Bentley College.

Business.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: nkgreen

Originally posted by: Queasy
University of Alabama - Football...particularly Bear Bryant.

Don't forget George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door! And Forrest Gump! btw, i'm going to bama also.

Oh, I know. But even those take a backseat to Football and Bear Bryant. There are plenty of important people/events from UofA but everything is overshadowed by the Bear.

 

[MrManly]

Students included:
Weird Al Yankovic
John Madden
Ozzie Smith

Guess!

-MrManly

 

[purbeast0]

if I mention UMD to anyone they automatically know the Terps. Winning the NCAA tourney while I was there helped that out heh.

 

[venk]

U of M

famous for everything ever.

Also famous for our arrogance.

 

[Sentinel]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
If i mention Purdue to anyone, they know engineering.

but if i mention Kent State (where im transferring) they know it because of "oh, the place where they shot the students"

no one even knows they helped invent LCDs but o well.

KSU, that's where I am graduating from this semester!

 

[Feldenak]

Auburn University - football

 

[ni4ni]

Originally posted by: Queasy
University of Alabama - Football...particularly Bear Bryant.

and Logan Young...I am assuming you know who he is. May he RIP.


The college I attended is famous because it was designed to be the nation?s first solar photovoltaic prototype facility.

Even more famous because, it didn't work.

 

[isasir]

NYU - Wannabe IVY league.

 

[arcenite]

Rutgers University - no idea

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: ni4ni

Originally posted by: Queasy
University of Alabama - Football...particularly Bear Bryant.

and Logan Young...I am assuming you know who he is. May he RIP.

That would be infamous though. Not famous.

 

[kitkat22]

BYU - has lots of Mormons

 

[Abel007]

Georgia Tech has some mediocre engineering fame I think.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: venk
U of M

famous for everything ever.

Also famous for our arrogance.

I assume you are talking about the University of Maine?

 

[iamwiz82]

Lots and lots and lots of automotive execs.